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...William Littlewood, 60, vice president in charge of equipment research, is one of the world's leading aircraft engineers. He has made contributions to the development of every plane American has bought, worked for ten years with airframe makers to develop commercial jets. ¶ Thomas L. Boyd, 50, slender, intense vice president for flight, has been flying for more than a quarter-century. He joined American in 1934 as a pilot, became a captain two years later, rose through the flight ranks to his present position. His job is to train pilots and flight crews...
...York Republican Senator (1915-27) and Representative (1933-51) James W. Wadsworth, daughter of John Hay, Abraham Lincoln's biographer and Secretary of State for both William Mc-Kinley and Theodore Roosevelt, mother of Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations James J. Wadsworth; and Jackson H. Boyd, 68, retired businessman; in Geneseo, N.Y. Among Mrs. Wadsworth's attendants: her daughter Evelyn, wife of Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington...
...seemed to lie in the complicated formula of twelve-meter-boat design, basically the art of making improvements on existing models. U.S. Designer Olin Stephens improved on the best there was: Vim, a 19-year-old Stephens creation that swept the class back in 1939. Britain's David Boyd, in his first attempt at a twelve-meter, had to improve principally on Evaine, an old British boat that Vim trounced...
From the tested model, Stephens designed a sleek, hard-charging champion that beat beautifully to windward, cut cleanly through the sea. Britain's Boyd built a barrel-chested challenger that bobbed too much in rough weather, slid off badly to windward. White-haired Cornelius ("Corny") Shields, Columbia's tactician during last summer's trials, put his racing-wise finger on Sceptre's big shortcoming: "She's too full forward and too fine...
...Designer Boyd admitted frankly that he had slipped on Sceptre, said that if he ever got the chance to design another twelve-meter, "I think I'll go ask Olin Stephens to let me have a look at the lines of Columbia." But Stephens made it plain that the champion's blueprints will remain a secret, just as Vim's have all these years...