Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings. 75, Chicago & Manhattan capitalist and famed trotting-horse breeder (Uhlan, Lou Dillon, The Harvester, Major Delmar); of pneumonia; at "Billings Park," near Santa Barbara, Calif. At 18 he entered Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., succeeded his father as president in 1887, became board chairman of Union Carbide & Carbon Co. in 1929; Turfman Billings was celebrated for his "horseback" parties at Manhattan's Sherry's. Guests rode their horses into the elevators, ascended to the dining room while mounted, were served by liveried waiters while their horses munched oats...
...Heads-up Baseball," the American League baseball picture, will be shown in the Dillon Field House at 2:00 today for the benefit of the various baseball squads. Ex-major leaguers Lew Fonseca and Roger Peckinpaugh will be present...
...action on the proposed hockey rink is dependent on only one thing, the raising of sufficient money. It is believed, however, by Bingham, that the cost of $500,000 estimated in the Council Report is excessive. Private donations have built the cages and Dillon Field House, and it is though possible that some graduate may contribute funds for the proposed project...
During the winter season Jimmie divides his time between the Dillon Field House and the Indoor Athletic building where he assists in wrestling. Reports have it that he is as good at finding unbreakable wrestling holds as he is at grappling with a twisted knee. His knowledge of anatomy serves both his constructive and destructive proclivities. At his desk at the Field House when business is light or all his patients are "baking" in the hydrothermal tanks, he spends his time poring over anatomy books or sympathetically follows Soames Forsythe in his quest for "ivory skinned" Irene's love...
James Forrestal, Dillon, Read...