Word: boyd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Building in Manhattan, several writers were "greening"-penciling out lines of their stories or adding a few to fit the space allotted to them. Trailing long galleys, the writers and other people on late duty constantly consulted the busy man on the high stool: Director of Computer Composition Robert Boyd. Whenever anything is about to go wrong at the end of the week-a misplaced sentence, a missing picture caption, an inexplicably overlong story-everyone knows that the man to see is Boyd. He can locate the sentence, rewrite the caption -even, it sometimes seems, mysteriously enlarge or shrink...
...Boyd joined TIME'S picture department after working for Newsweek for five years. In addition to his picture duties, he eventually took charge of editorial production and a staff of 175 people. Gruff and authoritarian, he was also fair, compassionate, humorous and fiercely loyal to his staff. According to a coworker, "Even those who didn't like him liked him." Boyd paid ceaseless attention to every detail, worked 100-hour weeks and was never sick. If a cold threatened, his procedure was to stay up all night so that it could not catch him unawares...
Another is the addition to his team of Dave Aronson, a freshman who spent last summer work with the late Formula One driver Mark Donohue. Along with two of Medenica's classmates--Fred Boyd and Chris Yerkes--Aronson rounds out what is probably the only all-Harvard pit crew in the SCCA...
...example Crout cites the case of Joyce Boyd in 1974. "After taking an early walk near Putnam Reservoir in Danvers, Massachusetts, she was attacked by two men when she returned to her car. Their obscene language made their intentions clear; but fortunately she had a handgun, the sight of which caused them to change thuir tune from 'White Mama' to 'OK Lady,' after which they ran to their car and drove...
...Boyd ended his speech with violent words about Harvard students. "You people are in a goldfish bowl Rocky puts us in to make us scared of what they think of us," Boyd said, "and you're being intellectually gutless and stupid not to notice...