Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clamor incessantly for such items as Hoppy roller skates (complete with spurs and jewel-studded ankle straps) and Hopalong bicycles (leather-fringed saddles, handlebars shaped like steer's horns, built-in gun holsters). Because of the craze for Hopalong hats, shirts, chaps, boots, six-shooters and gun belts, Boyd claims that U.S. manufacturers of 56% of all the Western-type merchandise are paying him royalties for Hopalong Cassidy endorsements...
Inundated by the commercial flood, Boyd promises: "We aren't going to overdo it. We'll just keep throwing wood on the fire." But he has endorsed so many products (from bedspreads to pocketknives) that he can't always keep them straight. Of his success Boyd says: "We don't think it's phenomenal. Years ago, a fellow got an idea to build a bridge across San Francisco Bay. People told him he was nuts. One morning we looked up and traffic was going across. Hopalong Cassidy was merely an idea that took 13 years...
...Boyd needed that document and he was glad to go through tribal protocol to get it. As editor of the projected 52-volume Papers of Thomas Jefferson, he was reaching for everything that Thomas Jefferson ever wrote...
...PAPERS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON, Vol. I (679 pp.)-Edited by Julian P. Boyd -Princeton University...
...tribe sat themselves down in a solemn, elm-shaded circle near Ponca City, Okla., and received a delegation of white men. As the ceremonies began, Moses Harragara, an elder of the tribe, handed a copy of a manuscript to the boss white man, Princeton Librarian Julian P. Boyd. It was no ordinary document. President Thomas Jefferson had written it and handed it personally to Oto Chief Standing Buffalo in Washington in 1806. Librarian...