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...writer on TIME'S editorial staff is a picture editor. All have a say in the selection of the 65 or so pictures (culled from about 10,000) that appear each week in TIME. But the man who (with the Managing Editor) has the final say is Robert Boyd, Senior Editor in charge of pictures and production...
...Bureau of University Travel is planning the following study programs under the leadership of university professors: Political Science, Comparative Government, Modern European History, Classical Backgrounds, History of Art, Architecture, Music Appreciation, and Backgrounds of Comparative Education. Inquire 11 Boyd Street, Newton, Mass...
...worth of oil in the ground. Yet the stock was then selling around $30. Odium began buying large blocks of Barnsdall stock, by late 1948 had acquired enough (35%) to get control of the company. Odium moved in as chairman, brought along two of his chief Atlas deputies-L. Boyd Hatch and Oswald L. Johnson-as directors early last year. They ran the company so well that in 1949, when the rest of the industry slipped a little from its 1948 high, Barnsdall upped its profits 4% to $14.8 million. Says Odium proudly: "It was probably the only [oil] corporation...
Straight-shooting Movie Cowboy Bill ("Hopalong Cassidy") Boyd was beginning to look like the biggest moneymaking star in television. In Hollywood, Boyd's managers boasted that 54 Hopalong pictures were grossing $1,000,000 a year on TV. Boyd's take: $150,000 a year-not counting what he makes from movies, radio, personal appearances and various Hopalong cowboy toys and clothes...
...Bureau of Mines announced that in its test plant it had produced oil from oil shale at a cost of $2 to $2.50 a barrel, comparable to the cost of petroleum pumped from the ground in east Texas. "We're over the hill now," crowed Plant Superintendent Boyd Guthrie. "We have the processes and the know-how . . . We're positive we can produce equal or better products than you can get from petroleum...