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Died. Ernest Boyd MacNaughton, 79, president of the Portland, Ore. First National Bank from 1932 to 1947 and its board chairman ever since, who was moderator of the American Unitarian Associa tion from 1950 to 1952, president of the Oregonian Publishing Company from
Married. Jimmy Boyd, 20, the freckled Tin Pan Alley flash of 1952, who sold more than 2,200,000 raspy records of 1 Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, has been an occasional TV and film actor since; and Yvonne Craig, 22, a rising cinemactress who recently completed High Time with Bing Crosby; in Dallas...
...other morning paper in San Francisco, Hearst's Examiner, which, while still leading the Chronicle in circulation, 276,692 to 270,285, views with sour face the Chronicle's aggressive efforts to catch up. At length, the Examiner could stand no more. Up to the Boyd survival site it sent newsmen for a look around...
What they found made a banner headline in the Examiner last week: BOYD'S CAMPING JAUNT EXPOSED. Below, the Examiner reported that the Boyds had disappeared, jubilantly printed a description of their primitive campsite: "Kitchen matches. Shells from fresh eggs. Empty cans which once contained spaghetti. Watermelon rinds. July issue of the Reader's Digest. So much toilet tissue that some of it had been used to start a fire." The Examiner cautiously refrained from drawing any snide conclusions. But the evening News-Call Bulletin, jointly owned by Hearst and Scripps-Howard, was less kind: "The Examiner published...
...Finest Goddam Articles." Finally, Chronicle Executive Editor Scott Newhall produced the truth. According to Newhall, it was not fraud-just tender-footedness. After watching his wife and daughters weaken from malnutrition and dysentery, Bud Boyd had marched out, returned with mounts, Rancher Proctor, the spaghetti, and other restoratives. Then the tenderfeet, after twelve days of roughing it, beelined for the sybaritic comforts of their Mill Valley, Calif, home...