Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author James Boyd (Drums, Marching On) decided the time had come for U. S. writers to fill the air full of the cause of democracy. Elmer Rice and Sherwood Anderson agreed. Together they shaped up an outfit called The Free Company, invited many another literary craftsman to join them in confecting a series of radio dramas designed to sing the various aspects of freedom in the U. S. This week, over a coast-to-coast hook-up (Sunday: 2-2:30 E. S. T.), The Free Company will get going. The Company's initial venture, characteristically entitled The People...
...designed to run 13 weeks, will be scripts on freedom in general by Stephen Vincent Benet, Sherwood Anderson, George M. Cohan, Ernest Hemingway. Not entirely indiscriminate in its praise of the U. S., The Free Company will include in its broadcasts a bit of salutary criticism, with Founder Boyd offering as his stint the fight of a worker against capital's frauds and labor's finks. But of the average shortcomings of the average citizen no mention was scheduled on the show...
Elimination of Air Marshal Boyd probably meant little or no delay in Britain's follow-up of her great naval coup at Taranto last fortnight, when Fleet Air Arm fliers knocked holes in half of Italy's battle line, or in new British pressure on Marshal Graziani's time-marking expeditionary force in the western desert. Knowing that Graziani had completed an advance camp 15 miles east of Sidi Bārrani, had drilled new water wells and about finished a hard-surface supply road along the coast, British naval units last week hove up and shelled...
ROME--The 25-hour Italian air patrol over the straits of Sicily was credited tonight with capturing Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd, the highest ranking British officer taken prisoner...
...Boyd's plane was forced down by Italian fighters which intercepted it near Sicily enroute to Cairo, where Boyd was to become second in command of the Royal Air Force in the Middle East. The Air Ministry in London confirmed the capture...