Word: boyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHARLES W. BOYD...
...Young Republican Club named Roger A. Moore '53 president last night. Other officers chosen were: Douglas K. Boyd '55, Vice President; John C. Eldridge '55, Operations Director; Carl L. Coran '55, Secretary; Joel J. Green 2L, Treasurer; Max Bell 3L, Nathanial Bond 5L, Christopher A. Smith '55, and John Stephens '55, Members at Large...
...last two years has guided his label to the No. 1 position among pop-record producers. Once a week he throws open the doors of his audition room in the hope of hearing a tune that is "right" for one of his stable of singers-Johnnie Ray (Cry), Jimmy Boyd (I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus), Frankie Lame (High Noon). Jo Stafford (Jambalaya), or Clooney. In four or five hours he receives a parade of professional managers, may sample 50 or more new songs while he sits spooning yoghurt or munching hard-boiled eggs...
Climaxing "Adolph Zukor Day" was a $75,000 dinner for 1,000-odd guests at Hollywood's Palladium. Songstress Rosemary Clooney sang (a microphone concealed in the bosom of her dress) Happy Birthday to You; William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd rode into the ballroom astride Topper to shout "Happy Birthday, Mr. Zukor!"; Oldtimer Mary Pickford made a teary speech and Oldtimer Mae Murray did a scampering dance...
Columbia got a head start on the others, and has already sold more than 1,000,000 copies to U.S. dealers. This makes something of an overnight national musical figure out of Columbia's vocalist: a twelve-year-old freckle-patch named Jimmy Boyd, of Van Nuys, Calif., who has had his own radio program in Los Angeles and is a veteran of five years in show business...