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Main Street in tiny Boyd, Texas (pop. 550) is two-lane, string-straight, smooth-paved-and ideal as a drag strip for the rambunctious local hot-rodders, who went roaring through town at night, leaving empty beer cans and angry citizens in their wild wake. Finally, in October 1956, Boyd decided to stop the hot-rodders by hiring cops for the first time. By last week, plainly convinced that the cure was worse than the disease, Boyd was a town full of cop haters...
While saddle-seasoned TV Cowpoke William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd, 63, and the missus sashayed out to try Paris-style vittles, some varmints snuck up to their hotel suite in the swank Plaza Athénée, made off with $12,000 in jewelry. Miffed by the misdeed, clueless Hopalong consoled himself with the fact that the loot was insured, moaned nonetheless: "It's like being robbed in a cathedral...
...winning design came from the drawing board of 55-year-old David Boyd, a Scotsman whose principal earlier success was the six-meter Circe, which in 1938 beat all comers in the international matches. Sceptre's African mahogany planking, her steel and oak frames and her 20-ton keel were skillfully transformed into a racing yacht under such rigid security that outsiders are still uncertain about all her essential statistics. But her 44 ft. on the waterline come close to the dimensions of all the cup defenders; so does her 12-ft. beam and her 70 ft. of overall...
Driving the same Belond Special that won for Sam Hanks last year, Bryan tramped on his foot throttle and tried to pull away. At the halfway mark he was still being tailed by Veterans Tony Bettenhausen and Johnny Boyd. Coming up fast was Rookie Driver George Amick. Each of the cars was powered by a four-cylinder Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engine. The drivers' skills and the speed of their pit crews meant more than any mechanical difference...
Michael A. Boyd, G. De Spoelberch, Richard B. Dobrow, Alan D. Grinnell, S. Dale Harris, Jay R. Merson, James H. Reiss, Paul A. Roazan, Howard R. Sloan, and Ernest Winsor were elected from Leverett House...