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...servicemen and -women. Weeks before the end of World War II in Europe, our government "asked" its soldiers to take part in a dubious mission to rescue an American prisoner in Germany, the relative of an influential general. The prisoner made it home. My father, Private Clarence W. Boyd, did not. JOAN BOYD HANDTKE Schererville...
...then in 1986 finally settled here for good. One of the things he liked about the U.S. was that he could "listen to everything from Pete Seeger to the Jackson Five." In 1991 he hooked up with jazz drummer Carter Beauford, saxophonist Leroi Moore, violinist Boyd Tinsley and bassist Stefan Lessard. The new band spent two long years gigging at beer-stained frat houses, molding their sound...
...there anything sweeter than the perfectly executed hoax? DAVID BOWIE, novelist William Boyd and others nearly pulled one off with the launch of the first book from Bowie's new publishing venture. It's Boyd's biography of little-known Abstract Expressionist painter NAT TATE, who, at 31, committed suicide after meeting Picasso and Braque and destroying most of his work, except the painting above. At the book party, English journalist David Lister asked guests if they had heard of Tate. Many had. Bad call. After very little digging, Lister discovered that Tate, photo and all, was a fiction. Boyd...
...President just needs a role model, says Olivia Boyd of Chicago, and she has one in mind. "There are crazy things Chelsea Clinton may want to do, but she's not going to because she knows what's expected of her. She's doing better with expectations than her father." Olivia...
...Asia. The alliance, still subject to regulatory approval, is expected to add some $500 million in revenue three years after implementation by capturing passengers who would otherwise have changed to another airline while making a connection. "Airlines are looking for ways to maximize revenues with existing resources," says Michael Boyd, president of the Boyd Group, a consulting firm in Evergreen, Colo. "In this case, both get incremental revenue at a minimal cost...