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...John Ervine (rhymes with "Injun servin'"), Irish critic-dramatist whose John Ferguson was a U.S. success in 1919, but whose Boyd's Daughter ran only three Broadway performances in 1940, told a Belfast lecture audience that the British way of life was still tops. "I say that, remembering America," said he. "I have been there twice, and I would rather be in jail in this country than free in America...
...James Boyd's Marching On, a novel of the South in the 1860s, Big Bill the Brakeman, who rode the historic Wilmington-Weldon (N.C.) run, bragged that he worked on "the wreckingest road in the Union." The Carolinas were beginning to wonder if they were getting to be the wreckingest states...
Tory Lennox Boyd leaped up to protest in the House of Commons. But, at a sign from Winston Churchill, he sat down again. Churchill demanded, and received, the promise of a later debate on both proposals...
...certain that F.A.O. would at least be an advisory and educational body, possibly something more. Said F.A.O.'s new director-general, 65-year-old Sir John Boyd Orr, Scottish nutritionist and farmer: "If we succeed in reaching all our objectives it will be a miracle. But the days of miracles are not passed...
...Frazer kept a controlling interest of 252 shares for himself and family, sold the rest to old business associates, including L. Boyd Hatch of Atlas Corp...