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Before heading to the Mayo Clinic for a slight nose operation, one-man rodeo Bill ("Hopalong Cassidy") Boyd took time out to go on a Voice of America program, gave Soviet moppets the low-down on redskins and rustlers, along with some Western philosophy: "Never kick a man when he's down; never shoot a man in the back...
...through Vassar by a patron who admired her youthful verse. After graduation (at 25) she lived among the very poor, "very merry" bohemians of Greenwich Village, had a" fling at acting (she was briefly a Provincetown Player), wrote short stories (for Vanity Fair under the name Nancy Boyd). With the bittersweet impudence of her second book of verse, A Few Figs from Thistles ("Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!"), she caught the popular ear, tasted fame. In 1923 she won a Pulitzer Prize and married Eugen...
Girls running for student council representative are: Ingelberg Blass, Nancl Boyd, Anne Jeffrey, Ruth Joseph, jean Ross, Vera Servi, Margot Sproul, Rowena Strauss, Evelyn Thompson, and Phyllis Watt...
Died. Curtis Boyd Johnson, 74, since 1916 publisher and principal owner of the Charlotte Observer, which he made the biggest daily (circ. 135,000) in the Carolinas; in Charlotte...
Last week, in a record-breaking turnout, Graham won a precarious victory. He polled 295,000 votes to 245,000 for Corporation Lawyer Willis Smith. But Robert R. .("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds and a pig breeder named Olla Ray Boyd had polled a total of 62,000 votes between them-enough to deny Graham a majority and to force a runoff next month if Smith demanded it. Smith probably would...