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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...
General O'Connor's capture was a particularly bitter blow; he was field commander of the North African Army and General Wavell's right-hand man. When next heard of, Air Marshal Boyd was commanding the camp carpentry shop, Generals O'Connor and Neame the chicken yard. In the wild confusion of Italy's debacle they escaped, vanished into the Italian countryside. This week London announced that they had reached the Allied lines. They were together through the long trek; their route was secret...
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...
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...