Word: dillons
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Gielgud, the director, hews more closely to the conventional line. The detachment is here more appropriate since it is Ivanov's detachment from the other characters, not merely the audience's detachment from the play. Gielgud orchestrates for a marvelous band of Chekhovian eccentrics-Dillon Evans as a monomaniacal bridge player, Ethel Griffies as a sour-faced marriage broker, Ronald Radd in a somewhat deeper role as the manager of Ivanov's estate, a man whose visions of wealth are only equalled by his incompetence...
Died. Will A. Dillon, 88, composer of such Tin Pan ditties as At the End of the Road and I'll Wed the Girl I Left Behind, but best remembered for his lyrics for I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad; of arteriosclerosis; in Ithaca...
Pusey also announced that former Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon '31 would lead a committee to raise the International Studies funds, while Robert Amory '36, an Overseer, will chair the Law School fund drive...
Quite apart from Kennedy, it was a vintage year for biography, ranging from George Painter's brilliant but specialized Proust: The Later Years to Richard Dillon's Meriwether Lewis, in its own way an equally special and rather Proustian account of an imaginative, ultimately ravaged figure in U.S. history. For those who remain fascinated by Dylan Thomas, Constantine FitzGibbon retold the life of the doomed Welshman, warts, work, women and booze. In a more sedate mood, Lady Longford, in her Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed, presented the best biographical portrait of the Queen and her age since Strachey...
Practice ended with a burst of shouts and a massive rush toward Dillon Field House. There band members had gathered and had blocked out a large V in red railroad flares on the turf. The team entered Dillon though the burning victory sign to frenzied cheers and Harvard song. The band followed the team into the locker room and continued to play fight songs for 15 minutes...