Word: maryon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even more notable triumph was Slonimsky's temporary resurrection of English Opera Composer Edward Maryon (The Prodigal Son, The Cycle of Life), who was believed by his own publishers to be dead until Slonimsky, after a futile appeal to Scotland Yard, discovered him alive in London (when he died in 1954, 87-year-old Composer Maryon left Slonimsky all his manuscripts). On the other hand, Slonimsky has suffered his setbacks: no amount of sleuthing has ever revealed the official birth dates of Antonio Vivaldi or Enrico Caruso; no fewer than 13 Enrico Carusos were born in Naples...
...Pearson, Methodists. Educated at University of Toronto (B.A. history) and St. John's College, Oxford (M.A.), later honorary fellow. World War I service in Toronto University Hospital unit, where he got nickname "Mike"; lieutenant, Canadian army; flight lieutenant, R.A.F. Married in 1925 to "shy, appealing, collected" (his phrase) Maryon Elspeth Moody of Winnipeg, seminar student when he was assistant professor of history at Toronto; two children: Geoffrey Arthur, 24, Patricia Lilian...