Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BELLE BOYD IN CAMP AND PRISON, edited by Curtis Caroll Davis. 448 pages. Yoseloff...
...when Belle Boyd was 19, she was captured and imprisoned in Washington, D.C., as a Confederate spy. Her memoir records the following dialogue with the prison's superintendent...
...reader suspects, a pest to both sides. Her several imprisonments were presumably more the result of impudence than real danger to the Union. After the war, she toured the lecture circuit as "the Rebel spy," giving dramatic readings of her "perilous" experiences. In 1900, still lecturing, Belle Boyd died and was buried in Wisconsin, far behind the enemy lines...
...project that he describes as "the most important job S.O.M. has ever tackled." Surprisingly, it does not involve erecting a single building. The architects are studying ways of designing an 18-mile-long strip of Interstate 95 that will go through the heart of Baltimore. Secretary of Transportation Alan Boyd, whose department is financing the study with a special $4.8 million grant, says of Owings' effort: "The potential there is immense. Communities must decide for themselves what they want their cities to look like...
Born. To Harry James, 52, top trumpeter and bandleader in the '40s and early '50s, now playing in Las Vegas, and Joan Boyd, 28, former showgirl he married last December: a boy, their first child; in Las Vegas...