Word: boyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floats and gigantic, inflated rubber animals were scheduled as usual. But Macy's, in one of its super coups, -had also procured the services of the noblest drugstore cowboy of them all-none other than television's black-clad, white-haired, 55-year-old William ("Hopalong Cassidy") Boyd...
During his early years in Hollywood, anyone who had predicted that he would end up as the rootin'-tootin' idol of U.S. children would have been led instantly off to a headshrinker.* Boyd, an Ohio-born laborer's son, went to California in 1915 because he yearned for money, fame, pretty girls and fun. He was a husky, handsome, good-natured youth with wavy platinum hair, and he hoped the motion-picture business would provide all. It did. He married a Boston heiress, whom he met while toiling as the chauffeur of a for-hire car; when...
...romantic star of such films as The Volga Boatman, Two Arabian Knights, Dress Parade, earned $100,000 a year-and spent $127,000 a year. It was the era of Theda Bara, Rudolph Valentino, the fantastic low-taxed Hollywood salary and the uninhibited Hollywood way of life. Bill Boyd accumulated a mansion in Beverly Hills, a beach house at Malibu, a ranch in the coastal hills, numerous bootleggers, and-with his pals Wallace Reid, Jack Pickford, Rod La Rocque-paddled happily with the tide. He got married and divorced three more times, and once during a party bought a yacht...
Before heading to the Mayo Clinic for a slight nose operation, one-man rodeo Bill ("Hopalong Cassidy") Boyd took time out to go on a Voice of America program, gave Soviet moppets the low-down on redskins and rustlers, along with some Western philosophy: "Never kick a man when he's down; never shoot a man in the back...
...through Vassar by a patron who admired her youthful verse. After graduation (at 25) she lived among the very poor, "very merry" bohemians of Greenwich Village, had a" fling at acting (she was briefly a Provincetown Player), wrote short stories (for Vanity Fair under the name Nancy Boyd). With the bittersweet impudence of her second book of verse, A Few Figs from Thistles ("Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!"), she caught the popular ear, tasted fame. In 1923 she won a Pulitzer Prize and married Eugen...