Word: shelley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he left home last winter on the first big troop convoy, Sherrod had to tell his wife there was a good chance he would be taken prisoner just as our correspondents Carl and Shelley Mydans had been before him. He wasn't captured-but lots of other things happened...
Philip McVey, Wichita, Kans., James A. Norton, Dyersburg, Tenn., Samuel A. Pratt, Manchester, Conn., Henry J. Rethorst, Piedmont, Calif., William V. Roth, Jr., Helena, Monf., James A. Shelley, Lincoln, Nebr., A. Anthes Smith, Fort Madison, la., Glen G. Smith, Indianapolis, Ind., Jay L. Smith, Chicago...
...moments before they were dynamited. A.P.'s Clark Lee, Melville Jacoby and wife Annalee* caught a small island freighter at midnight on New Year's Eve as the Manila docks went up in flames. Other correspondents including LIFE'S Photographer Carl Mydans and his wife Shelley (also a staff photographer) were, so far as is known, captured in Manila...
When the sailing fad set in, Shelley and his friend Williams went tacking and tipping up & down the coast. One day their horribly waterlogged, fish-eaten bodies were brought ashore and buried. Then they were dug up for cremation on the beach. "Is that a human body?" asked Byron. "Why, it's more like the carcass of a sheep." Shelley's brains, "cupped in the broken cranium," seethed and boiled as in a cauldron for a long time. Byron felt sick, went for a swim. Driving home, Byron and Leigh Hunt felt a "hysterical gaiety . . . drank...
Shocked by Shelley's death, bored by Teresa Guiccioli, worn out by living with the Leigh Hunts (whose very modern children Byron called a "draal of Hottentots") Byron decided to go to Greece. Author Quennell does not believe that he really wanted to go. "The idea of death might leave him calm; he shuddered . . . at the prospect of moving house." To Lord and Lady Blessington who saw him just before he left, he made farewell presents, demanded "a corresponding gage d'amitie." He made "some sarcastic observation on his nervousness." He had wept "and made no effort...