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...Byron Price, ex-newsman, ex-Director of Censorship, Wabash College '12, was taken on by President Eric Johnston as vice president of the ex-Hays office...
André Maurois, best-selling litterateur (Ariel, Byron, The Art of Living), wartime French refugee in Manhattan, and more popular abroad than in France, prepared to move west, to teach at Kansas City U. Subject: European novelists...
...philosophy from Thales (B.C. 640) to Philosopher Russell. It also discusses great religions (Greek polytheism, Judaism, Christianity, Mohammedanism) and a number of thinkers whom philosophers do not consider philosophers but whose thought and actions have been important to man's mind (St. Francis, St. Benedict, Karl Marx, Machiavelli, Byron). There are expositions of great books, Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Spinoza's Ethics, and the History is almost as full of poems as an anthology...
...tone down this history, while shifting the blame for the episode from Shelley to Harriet. In this ambitious task she found an ambiguous and wholly unexpected ally-a U.S. blackmailer known to the authorities as De Gibler. Among the intelligentsia he was known as "Major" George Gordon Byron. He claimed to be Lord Byron's son by a secret marriage...
Biographical Black Market. This pseudo-Byron turned up in England and tried to introduce himself to Lord Byron's half-sister, Augusta Leigh. He was shown the door. He had more success in peddling forged Byron letters. Through a London book seller, "Major" Byron's wife sold 47 forged Byron autographs to Publisher John Murray. Soon she was back with a swatch of "lost" Shelley letters. Soon the "Major" was in touch with Mary Shelley. Their biographical black marketing was sometimes disturbed by shrill cries of "Blackguard!" from Mary...