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How high it will go not even Brigadier General Joseph Wilson Byron, head of the Army Exchange Service, could accurately guess. But General Byron, a quiet, easygoing West Pointer who left the service to run his family's leather business after World War I and returned last July, can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Big Business | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

Died. Devereux Milburn, 61, rated for some 20 years the world's greatest polo player; of a heart attack; in Westbury,L.I. A poloist from the age of 14, he transformed what had been a short-passing, easygoing game into the hard-riding, hard-hitting polo that satisfied the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 24, 1942 | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

A century and a half had passed since Fletcher Christian and eight other mutineers with Tahitian wives and friends had sailed the Bounty to Pitcairn, run it aground and burned it. By 1800 all the mutineers but John Adams had either died quietly or been murdered. And for 29 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PITCAIRN ISLAND: Won: A Constitution | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

Easygoing Senator Tom Stewart, seeking renomination, had only to make his voters forget that: 1) he had voted for Congressional pensions; 2) he had aided a vendetta against TVA's popular Dave Lilienthal; 3) two Stewart sons were on the public payroll. The voters forgot.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Primaries | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

But even Nelson's closest friends conceded that he had often been too easygoing, too loth to issue harsh commands when even a second's delay was fatal. The metal that poured into refrigerators and race-track grandstands six months ago, before WPB got around to calling a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes The Army | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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