Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieutenant Boyd D. Wagner, 25-year-old Army flyer from Pennsylvania. Five Japanese fighters attacked him over Aparri, Hawaii. He shot down two, machine-gunned twelve other Japanese planes on the ground, left five of them burning...
...every undergraduate literatus, when newspapermen were supposed to carry copies of the Mercury in their hip pockets along with their liquor flasks, and when he himself was scorching Fundamentalists at the Scopes trial, sitting up all night with characters like Rudolph Valentino, and lalloping around Manhattan with Ernest Boyd and Jim Huneker...
...late great original Quirt & Flagg, William Boyd & Louis Wolheim ("Sez you. Sez me."), the theme of the new show would seem strange. The old glory-debunking note of What Price Glory? is missing. Sergeant Quirt & Captain Flagg join up again, proceed immediately to get in Dutch by avidly pursuing their general's wife. Typical dialogue: "Lady, if I was to know every girl who goes riding with me I could make a fortune selling it to Sears, Roebuck as a mailing list...
...post-Verne Marshall Gazette is doing well. With circulation at an all-time high (44,701), it now prints news on the front page, carries on more moderately and grammatically under capable former Associate Editor Harry E. Boyd and Verne's younger, smaller, quieter brother Clare. Said Editor-in-Chief Clare Marshall to his staff: "We're still a strong crusading paper. But when you have a grievance, keep it out of the news story...
Aiming to run his paper at a profit and not just for fun, Boyd hired the Pilot's ex-publisher, Nelson C. Hyde, as its news and business manager. Boyd will devote himself to writing the editorials. Says he: "I am a sincere believer in the importance and influence of the independent small-town paper in American life...