Today much of his writing would be considered stuffy and a shade politically improper."The smartest thing I did as a young man," he confessed in one of his columns, "was to take to wife a secretary in the State Department." Upon having his pocket picked, he observed: "If some of the economic theories bruited about today are correct, it could be argued that the nation's economy had been helped thereby."Gentle in tone, rigorous in thought, he would range in his columns beyond the issues of the day to examinations of evil and man's relationship with God. The years when he was its editor, from 1958 to 1971, saw spectacularly rapid growth. Those who survive him at the Journal remember him best for a column he wrote during the last 15 years of his professional life under the title "Thinking Things Over".A student in his youth of Latin and Greek, unfailingly right-wing but never shrill, Royster wrote in the ponderous, sententious cadences of the Victorian school. Vermont Connecticut Royster, who was born in North Carolina and lived most of his life in New York, was one of the most distinguished and unflagging journalists produced in America this century. He began his career as a reporter with the Wall Street Journal in 1936 and ended it, with the same newspaper, in 1986. During that period the Journal's circulation increased from 35,000 to near 2 million. He was a colourful, lovable and ubiquitous man, always popping up at conferences, taking copious notes, generous in his praise and acute in his criticism.James Tye, advertising agent and safety manager: born London 21 December 1921; Executive Director, British Safety Council 1962-68, Director-General 1968-96; married 1950 Rosalie Hooker (one son, one daughter); died London 21 July 1996.. He knew the power of advertising for a crucial cause, and over the 35 years he served and ran the British Safety Council, he earned the admiration and affection even of most of his critics.It is the British Safety Council which will be his memorial.

Under his leadership, the council has become one of the most influential Occupational Health and Safety Organisation in Europe He built it He used it as a platform for his unceasing safety campaigns. Through his own work as a pro- safety pressure group, he put a permanent and powerful spotlight on to the need for safety, and on blatant examples of its absence. As Allan St John Holt, Chairman of the International Committee of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, said: "James Tye is the sort of man who will throw himself off a cross- Channel ferry to demonstrate the poor design of the life vests then in place, resulting in a change in government policy."Tye shrugged off attacks by his critics and opponents claiming that he was simply an inveterate self-publicist. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management; a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and of the Royal Society of Arts; Honorary Vice-President of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health; a Member of the American Society of Safety Engineers and of the American Safety Management Society; Vice-President of the Jamaica Safety Council; and a Fellow of the Institute of Accident Prevention, Zambia.He wrote many books and handbooks, from Communicating the Safety Message to the Management Guide (1968) to Product Liability (1979); from Skilful Driving (1952) and the Industrial Safety Digest (1953) to the International Nautical Safety Code (with Uffa Fox, 1961).No area of safety escaped his lively attention.