Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy Forrestal, whose 22 years in Wall Street, including three as president of Dillon, Read & Co., had given him the financial know-how for the $30,000 a year job, had been offered it last week. (Onetime U.S. Budget Director Lewis W. Douglas had turned it down.) Although Forrestal was mumchance, one sage Washington dopester said: "It's as sure as anything can be these days that Jimmy will take...
...Argument? In Dillon, S.C., Harmon Herring, fresh from a touch-&-go wrestling match with a wildcat (which he finally throttled), announced authoritatively that no man can lick his weight in wildcats...
...also hear occasionally from our subjects. Hollywood's Errol Flynn. who has some kind of affinity for the People section, is forever writing in to "straighten" us out on this or that technicality of his misadventures. Not long ago Clark Gable's first wife, Josephine Dillon, communicated her displeasure at another magazine's description of her as "many years his [Gable's] senior.'' She thought we ought to know that she is only "three'' years older than Gable, who is "swiftly approaching fifty...
Sample details: marriage to his dramatic coach, Josephine ("He hasn't forgotten a thing I taught him") Dillon, several years his senior, ended in divorce, 1930; marriage to wealthy Texas Widow Ria Langham, also several years his senior, tnded in divorce, 1939; marriage, regarded by fan magazines as a "true love" match, to famed blon.de Cinemactress Carole Lombard, ended by her death in a Nevada air crash, January 1942. Recently Gable has squired ex-Model Anita ("The Face") Colby (TIME, Jan. 8, 1945), blonde Cinemactress Virginia Grey, and moneyed Widow Laura ("Dolly") Hylan Heminway Fleischmann O'Brien...
When Author Seton kills off Father & Mother Cameron in a few swift pages of cholera and hemorrhages, kindly Mexicans adopt Fey. Later, handsome, rascally Terry Dillon finds Fey a helpful partner in selling Dr. Dillon's Extra Special Elixir, a snake oil whose chief ingredient is river water. Said the Indians: "The Great Spirit meant you for a better destiny...