Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frazer kept a controlling interest of 252 shares for himself and family, sold the rest to old business associates, including L. Boyd Hatch of Atlas Corp...
Miss Mac had been born into the late Cleland Boyd McAfee's staunchly Presbyterian Scotch-Irish household in Parkville, Mo. in 1900-last of the Rev. Dr. McAfee's three daughters. She had grown up in an atmosphere of visiting missionaries, company for Sunday dinner, the Bible, St. Nicholas and the Youth's Companion. She remembers herself and two sisters as "perfect little snobs...
...stroke of 12, the networks were combing the Midwest for late hour fill-ins. Some of the substitutions planned: Chris Cross (Denver) for Tommy Dorsey and Guy Lombardo; George Sterney (Cleveland) for Louis Armstrong; George Hamilton (St. Louis) for George Olsen and Leo Reisman; Boyd Raeburn (Chicago) for Tony Pastor...
Three years ago Mrs. Louis Sigaud of Brooklyn read an article in a pulp detective-story magazine about a famed Confederate spy named Belle Boyd. Turning to her husband, she remarked that the subject would make a good book. Her husband, who should know, agreed. A World War I counterespionage agent who rose to be a lieutenant colonel in the Military Intelligence Reserve, he proceeded to write the book himself...
Hearts and Information. Born of good family in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Belle Boyd made her debut in Washington society at 16. Next year the Civil War began. A bright, black-eyed, self-reliant girl with a figure that North & South agreed was perfect, Belle was no camp follower. She may or may not have won the hearts of some Union officers, but Author Sigaud is sure she was not, as her critics have asserted, a prostitute. She was a spy, attached to the Intelligence section of the Confederate Army, engaged primarily in collecting information about the movements...