Word: boyd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complications he is seen at the picture's climax entering a racketeer's headquarters armed with a monkey wrench to rescue the beautiful kidnapped daughter of a rich lawyer. There is more fun in The Gang Buster than its plot would indicate. Oakie is good and so is William Boyd as Gangster Mike Slade. Best shot: Wynne Gibson as a gangster's moll sending innocent Oakie out to telephone a rival gunman that Slade is paying...
...puzzled man was Boyd Mayhew of Washington, D. C. when he shot a wild goose on the Patuxent River and found upon its leg an aluminum band with the legend: "Have faith in God! Write Jack Miner, Kingsville, Ont." (TIME...
Derelict (Paramount). George Bancroft and that William Boyd who, to distinguish him from another star of the same name, is generally referred to as "the incomparable Sergeant Quirt in the stage version of What Price Glory," fight each other in many seaports and on ships for the favors of Jessie Royce Landis. They are first mates on boats of the. same line. Bancroft is the first mate who really loves the girl. Boyd is the nasty first mate. The melodramatic episodes arranged for them are well directed and plausible for this kind of thing. Best shot: a storm...
Trans-Atlantic. Capt. J. Errol Boyd (Canadian) and Lieut. Harry Connor, retired U. S. Navy flyer who with Roger Quincy Williams flew the old Bellanca-built Columbia non-stop from Long Island to Bermuda and back (TIME, July 7), last week flew the Columbia from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Tresco, one of the Scilly islands, 25 mi. off Cornwall, England. Theirs was the fifth heavier-than-air crossing this year, the 26th in history. They spent the night in that Arthurian Land of Lyonnesse, then continued to Croyden, their real destination. First to greet them there was Charles A. Levine...
...Robert Todd Oliver, 63, of Philadelphia, bemedalled chief of the U. S. Army dental corps, instructor of military tactics and dental science at the University ! of Pennsylvania took office as President of the American Dental Association; succeeding Dr. R. Boyd Bogle of Nashville, Tenn.: preceding President-elect Dr. Martin Dewey of Manhattan; at the association's Denver convention...