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Sweeten the Benefits. When V. (for Vestor) J. Skutt took over the presidency of Mutual in 1949 from the late founder Dr. C. C. Criss, he set about building up-and drastically changing-the company. South Dakota-born Skutt studied law at Omaha's Creighton University, and in 1924 entered Mutual's legal department. When he rose to president, Skutt found that nobody could keep straight the legal name, Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association, copyrighted a nickname-Mutual of Omaha. He plugged it widely in ads, was delighted when a Buffalo, N.Y. school pupil, asked to identify...
...were again called for penalties within 50 seconds. Breaking away from his own blue line after Anderson was detected holding, Vietze forced an interference penalty to stop a solo dash on Tanner, then lured a leg-check infraction from Marquis. Nothing came of the advantage, however, as Larry Creighton, brother of N.H.L. star Dave, killed time beautifully...
After Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer had made John Osborne famous, he raided his trunk and came up with Epitaph for George Dillon, a product of his early, hungry years. Though it was written in collaboration with Anthony Creighton, Dillon shows unmistakable signs of being Osborne's work, and as such it was produced in London and New York. (If Creighton does not receive his due from audience or critics, it is because most of them have never heard of him, and have no way of knowing what...
...this raises the question, "What's eating George Dillon?"--the same question that is asked about Jimmy Porter, and about Osborne himself. Curiosity on this point, at least so far as it concerns Dillon, is never entirely satisfied; perhaps Osborne does not entirely know the answer (not to mention Creighton). But if Dillon's fury and hatred are not completely explained, they are convincingly dramatized; and we are let in on certain factors that help to account for them...
...seemed for naught a minute later when Larry Creighton, brother of professional Dave, drilled his own rebound past Pratt to set the stage for Vietze