Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parade, almost three years old, is a picture-laden, 28-page, magazine-like supplement distributed in 15 cities. It is dissociated from other Field publications, except that Chicago's Sun is a customer. Parade is unusual in two respects: 1) Editor Ross Art Lasley and his top associates (Boyd Brodhead and Harold H. Funk) have had no other newspaper or magazine experience; 2) the gravure-printed supplement gets an extreme degree of editing by its readers...
...James Boyd...
...last week of February and the first [two weeks] of March [were] a peculiarly lethal time for American authors; five of them died. James Boyd, John Thomason, Joseph Lincoln, Irvin Cobb, Hendrik van Loon - that is the list. In the opinion of a good many competent critics, James Boyd was by far the most solidly important of them...
...company with a great many other readers of TIME, I was amazed and dismayed that there was not even a mention of the sudden and dramatic death of James Boyd in the service of his country...
...Fifty-five-year-old Author Boyd (Drums, Roll River, Bitter Creek, etc.) died last Feb. 25, of a heart attack, at Princeton, N.J., where he was pursuing his war work. The Free Company (TIME, Feb. 24, 1941), which he founded, strove to counter the enemy's propaganda...