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...Boyden Station in South Africa, corresponding center for southern photography, is at Harvard Kopje in Orange Free State. Its white stucco buildings, located on a high plateau 14 miles from Bloemfontein, contain six telescopes which cover all of the southern sky and 30 degrees of the northern. The site first chosen for the Southern observatory, Arepuipa, Peru, was in operation from 1890 to 1926 at which time the expensive transfer of equipment was made to the new location...

Author: By Walde PROFFITT Jr., | Title: Cambridge Is Center of Widely Scattered Research Empire Departments of Astronomy, Art, Botany, Biology Have Distant Outposts | 11/22/1946 | See Source »

Bartlett W. Boyden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of 1921 Assembling for 25th Reunion Listed | 6/4/1946 | See Source »

William C. Boyden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roster of Alumni Returning for AHC Post-Victory Meeting | 6/4/1946 | See Source »

Last week's polygamy crackdown was prompted by an appeal by Mormon leaders themselves. The polygamists' prosecutor is a tall young Mormon, U.S. Assistant District Attorney John S. Boyden. Since there is no U.S. law against polygamy (except in territories), Boyden invoked the Mann Act, the Lindbergh kidnapping law (against a group who took a 14-year-old girl polygamist to a "lambing ground"), the prohibition against mailing obscene literature, etc. Basis for the raids was a recent test case in which the Government sent Polygamists John and Lola Zenz to prison for terms of five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fundamentalists | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh's Oliver Iron & Steel Co., came the offer of another job with a salary of $1,000 a year. Homesick Tom Girdler snapped it up, caught the next ship back to the U.S. "That," he confesses in his just-published autobiography (Boot Straps, written in collaboration with Boyden Sparkes; Scribner; $3), "is how I happened to get into the steel business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Girdler Writes a Book | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

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