Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharp-eyed Britons, poring over copies of Burke's Peerage and Debrett's, noted an odd contradiction in the listing for Sir Robert Dillon, 44, eighth Baronet, of Lismullen in Ireland. Burke's indicated that Sir Robert was heirless, and his nearest blood relative was a spinster sister, Laura Maude Dillon, 43. Debrett's took a rosier view and bold-faced the name of a younger brother, Dr. Laurence Michael Dillon, to signify that he was the heir to the baronetcy...
...secret. Its editor, C. F. Hankinson, had discovered an amended birth certificate that transformed sister Laura Maude into brother Laurence Michael. Newsmen last week found the doctor himself at Philadelphia, aboard the British freighter, City of Bath, on which he serves as medical officer. Bearded, pipe-smoking Dr. Dillon explained that he was a victim of hypospadias, that he had sensed in his teens he was different from other girls, and that his voice "became deeper than a female's but higher than a male's" when he was 20. From 1945 to 1949 he underwent a series...
AFRICA'S BUILDUP is starting to draw big money from private U.S. investors. To finance housing, roads, utilities, Belgian Congo will float $15 million bond issue in U.S. through Dillon, Read & Co., first such Wall Street public offering: bv any African colony since World...
...animal relatives are a "type of highly modified plant life," according to Biologist Lawrence S. Dillon of Texas A. & M. By examining the internal structures of living cells. Dillon concludes that all life evolved from microscopic blue-green algae. From these algae developed two main branches of life. One became what is commonly called the plant kingdom, the other evolved into brown seaweed and eventually produced man and his fellow animals. Said Dillon: "We are forced to conclude that all life belongs to only one kingdom, which in all honesty must be recognized as the kingdom of plants...
...found Bill McCurdy and Ed Stowell, varsity track coaches, in the exercise room atop Dillon Field House. They were in the midst of a long and arduous series of calisthentics that would have done credit to the most fit of their undergraduate charges...