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While the front office was counting up the gate receipts ($38,000), most of which goes to indigent ballplayers, Cincinnati's townsfolk were heaping praise on the grizzled head of William Boyd McKechnie, mild-mannered manager of the amazing Reds. Not only was Starting Pitcher Vander Meer credited with the victory, but Catcher Ernie Lombardi, rookie First Baseman Frank McCormick and Outfielder Ival Goodman turned in creditable performances...
...Monday morning ten years ago, John R. White, mechanical superintendent of the Charlotte, N. C. Observer, marched into the office of Publisher Curtis Boyd Johnson. He announced that one of his linotype operators, 36-year-old Buford Leonard Green, had a mechanized linotype invention that worked. Three months later, convinced that Green had something worth backing, Publisher Johnson entered a partnership with...
Between tussles with the sirloin, Richard H. Sullivan '39 chairman of the House Committee, introduced a list of speakers including Housemaster Julian L. Coolidge '96, Adolph W. Samborski, '25, Director of Intramural Athletics, who presented the trophy to Ronald R. Boyd '38, House athletic secretary; William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, Norman Fradd, Director of Physical Education, and George Scott '36, who coached the Bellboy oarsmen this spring...
Lowell; stroke, P. Scott; 7, R. Kernan; 6, R. Hogerty; 5, M. Pirnie; 4, S. White; 3, D. Todd; 2, H. Call; bow, J. Meigs; cox, R. Boyd...
...small office in the National Broadcasting Co. building and witnessed the first television book review in the U. S. The book was Sidney A. Spencer's The Greatest Show on Earth, a collection of photographs illustrating economic laws; the reviewer was baldish, bearded Critic Ernest Boyd. In a milky, translucent square of light in the television receiving apparatus, the audience could make out the figure of Critic Boyd, his features hidden in shadows, as he faced some indistinguishable framed object on the studio wall and began his review by exclaiming nervously, "Ah, Johann Gutenberg!" Intermittently photographs from the book...