Word: boyd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monday morning ten years ago, John R. White, mechanical superintendent of the Charlotte, N. C. Observer, marched into the office of Publisher Curtis Boyd Johnson. He announced that one of his linotype operators, 36-year-old Buford Leonard Green, had a mechanized linotype invention that worked. Three months later, convinced that Green had something worth backing, Publisher Johnson entered a partnership with...
Between tussles with the sirloin, Richard H. Sullivan '39 chairman of the House Committee, introduced a list of speakers including Housemaster Julian L. Coolidge '96, Adolph W. Samborski, '25, Director of Intramural Athletics, who presented the trophy to Ronald R. Boyd '38, House athletic secretary; William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, Norman Fradd, Director of Physical Education, and George Scott '36, who coached the Bellboy oarsmen this spring...
Lowell; stroke, P. Scott; 7, R. Kernan; 6, R. Hogerty; 5, M. Pirnie; 4, S. White; 3, D. Todd; 2, H. Call; bow, J. Meigs; cox, R. Boyd...
...small office in the National Broadcasting Co. building and witnessed the first television book review in the U. S. The book was Sidney A. Spencer's The Greatest Show on Earth, a collection of photographs illustrating economic laws; the reviewer was baldish, bearded Critic Ernest Boyd. In a milky, translucent square of light in the television receiving apparatus, the audience could make out the figure of Critic Boyd, his features hidden in shadows, as he faced some indistinguishable framed object on the studio wall and began his review by exclaiming nervously, "Ah, Johann Gutenberg!" Intermittently photographs from the book...
With Pete Scott at stroke, the Bellboys have Ronny Boyd at cox, Bob Kernan at seven, Bob Hagerty at six, Malcolm Pirnie at five, Sam White at four, Donald Todd at three, Hughes Call at two, and John Meigs...