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Called in by the Senate Judiciary Committee to tell these stories, to soothe a teapot tempest, were Censor Byron Price, Attorney General Francis Biddle, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, Captain Ellis M. Zacharias of the Navy Intelligence, Brigadier General Hayes A. Kroner of the Army Intelligence...
Then back to his job of opening mail (which takes 87% of his budget) went calm Byron Price, knowing full well his work was a criminal offense in peacetime, un-American at any time, a vital necessity in wartime...
...Miami Open, only half the usual cast showed up last week. Among the missing were four of the tour's annual headliners: Ben Hogan, leading low-scorer the past three years (now a civilian aviation student); Byron Nelson, always close on his heels (denied his plane transportation from Texas at the last moment); Sam Snead, most idolized of U.S. pros (now a third-class seaman in the Navy); and Craig Wood, National Open champion (now a captain in the Marines...
...lesser characters, rehearsing for this one performance for weeks, put on a good show. Veteran Harold McSpaden's winning total of 272 (67-70-69-66) was only three strokes higher than Byron Nelson's winning score over the same course last year. Runner-up was Johnny Revolta with...
...week's end Washington authorities had been needled enough. They retorted. Reason for the censorship of some opinion, they said, is that Axis propagandists seize upon reports of Allied dissension, racial or otherwise, and feed them to European and South American peoples in exaggerated shapes. Explained U.S. Censor Byron Price: When foreign correspondents undertake to send abroad editorial comments which tend "to emphasize disunity in this country instead of stating the facts as they are," they must be censored...