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They're also affordable, at just $10 a pop, and for Canadians they're an easy way to show off national pride. A maple leaf is smartly stitched on the palm of each glove. "They're a good way to show your spirit," says Jennifer Boysen, a McDonald's store manager from Acton, Ont. "When you wave, it's like you're waving the Canadian flag. And they keep you warm during hockey games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vancouver Goes Crazy for Red Mittens | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...Norway's Audun Boysen set a meet record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The One to Win | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

Then the Worker's editors discovered that Boysen was of Puerto Rican descent. The issue was plain as a picket's placard: the case had sinister overtones of Jim Crowism and white supremacy. In a furious editorial the Worker slapped down its sportwriters : "We regret that [they] should have tended in one case to minimize and in the other case to overlook this social aspect of the Durocher case, their comments ranging from a 'let's-hear-from-both-sides' to a 'it's-too-difficult-to-judge' attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Repent, Ye Sinners | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...walked modestly across the Polo Grounds to the Giants' dugout. The public-address system blared a recording of When You Were Sweet Sixteen ("I love you as I never loved before"), and his team clobbered the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates 11-4. This week, on advice of counsel, Fred Boysen, the young Puerto Rican who tangled with Durocher, dropped his charge of simple assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Happy Springs the Lip | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...clear, but there was a surprise left for Fred Boysen. Police stepped up and arrested him on a charge of theft. A Negro nurse had seen his picture in the papers, thought he looked like one of the men who had swiped her purse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Happy Springs the Lip | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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