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When Italy surrendered last September, three high British officers were glumly killing time in a prisoner-of-war camp near Florence. Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd had been captured late in 1940, when his transport was forced down in Sicily. Lieut. Generals Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor and Philip Neame, V.C., had been crudely kidnapped by a Nazi motorcycle patrol which stumbled across them in a stalled truck convoy near Derna, Libya, on a spring night...
When Thomas Jefferson penned a letter expounding a revolutionary idea or explaining the difference between dry, sweet and astringent wines, he noted the correspondence in his Epistolary Record. That fact will be of great help for the next ten years to Princeton University's Librarian Julian Parks Boyd. He is preparing the first complete edition of the writings of the first complete U.S. philosopher...
South Carolina-born Editor Boyd studied at Duke University, got a doctorate at Franklin & Marshall. He is a distinguished younger U.S. historian, has collaborated with such able writers as Franklin biographer Carl Van Doren and the University of Pennsylvania's Roy Franklin Nichols. With hobbies running from gardening to handsetting type, Boyd shares some of Jefferson's own tastes. Among topics of lasting interest treated with passion and discrimination in the writings of the great Virginian: politics, government, history, art, science, literature, agriculture, music, architecture, education, mathematics, business, newspapers, wine-drinking...
Although such foams had been in use for 50 years, Boyd thought he could invent a better one-and did. To manufacture and sell it, he formed National Foam, soon was doing a tidy worldwide business selling foam and equipment to protect oilfields and refineries in Ploesti, Hamburg, Tokyo, Yokohama. Later, aided by his chemistry-smart vice president, George Gordon Urquhart, he turned a second trick: creation from soybeans of a new super-efficient foam, which he called Aer-O-Foam...
More Production. A war-hating Quaker, Mr. Boyd did not think of his foams as war materiel until the Army gave him a sizable order. Early in '42 the Navy swamped him with an order for 200,000 gallons, almost a year's production for his small, old-fashioned factory...