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...Blair M. Boyd, Jr. '48, who was elected last night by the Workshop as production manager for the show, has scheduled crew tryouts for later in the month...
Died. Ernest Boyd, 59, Dublin-born, copper-bearded essayist and critic, famed for his caustic comments on modern manners & morals during the Greenwich Village literary renaissance of the 19203, once known as the most striking-looking figure of Manhattan's writing set; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. With George Jean Nathan, James Branch Cabell, Eugene O'Neill, he founded in 1932 the "literary newspaper" The American Spectator, for three years published the works of the nation's best writers, suddenly quit when he and his fellow editors "tired...
...recent organizational meeting, Workshop members re-elected Jerome T. Kilty '50 managing director, and appointed Blair Boyd '48 assistant manager and William Becker '47 secretary. Selected as members of the play reading committee were Weisgal, Kenneth Koch '48, and Miss Marie Heath...
Hardheaded economists saw a good many flaws in the World Food Board Plan devised by Britain's Sir John Boyd Orr, director-general of U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization. But the U.S.'s abrupt rejection of it last week illuminated a more important defect: the inability of U.S. Government departments to agree on policy...
...business of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization is, in the words of Director General Sir John Boyd Orr, to see to it "that the people of the world will never again suffer from famine." Last week, the business at its meeting in Copenhagen was still chiefly organization. Detailed plans for a world food board and international price stabilization would be submitted to member Governments and ultimately to the U.N. Sir John Orr was actually promoting a kind of worldwide A.A.A. to regulate farming globally. The plan was highly controversial. The U.S. State Department was dead set against...