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student of crime, with a library of 5,000 books on the subject". Once a week for more than a decade he dressed like a working man and went to dangerous parts of the city, including rough bars, seeking ideas for stories from "thieves, lackeys, and off-duty cops". He learned more about crime by reading five newspapers daily.
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Byron was called "a stickler for authenticity". For example, when a character was shot in an episode, the location of the bullet wound was specified to the actor or actress because the location would have "a large influence on the victim's speech and general behavior". Dunning described him as "a
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Byron was president of the New York local of the Radio
Directors Guild, and by May 1947 he had become head of the national guild. In the latter role he produced "an unprecedented series of air shows costing about $ 400,000" to oppose passage of the
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Byron went to work for NBC in 1960 as an account executive in the special program sales department. He left there in the spring of 1964 to work at ABC on a project "for the restoration of top-grade radio drama". The result was
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February 10, 1943, and was commissioned a captain. When he was radio officer for
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radio program, which was later adapted for television. He produced and directed the radio version and was one of its writers, but a clause in his contract with
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