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...factly admitted doing a lot of shooting himself back in the 1930s. He told of having set himself up as a pier boss after ending a hitch in prison. It was easy. With three other hoodlums, he "decided to take a pier ... off two brothers by the name of Dillon, which we did. It was the Italian Line, Pier 59, North River. They went off without any trouble. They knew what would happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Tales of the Gotham Hoods | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...department maintains a laboratory with a staff of trained technicians. The Law school, Medical and Public Health school, and the Business school now have clinics. Two doctors are on call every evening. A surgical staff at Dillon Field House, supported by the H.A.A., gives over 20,000 treatments to athletes a year, and the three-man dental staff sees over 4,000 cases per annum...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Hygiene Cures Ills and Has Its Own | 1/8/1953 | See Source »

...football lettermen of the past season will vote at a meeting in Dillon Field House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Football Team Elects Captain, MVP This Afternoon | 12/2/1952 | See Source »

Bargains & Coups. After surveying the U.S. and Canada, De Golyer decided that the best prospects for Amerada were in Texas. But only U.S.-owned companies could drill there. So the Cowdray family split its 60% ownership in half, and let Wall Street's Dillon, Read & Co. sell half the stock on the U.S. market at $26 a share.* Amerada went into Texas and found oil from the start. With their growing geophysical skill, Jacobsen and De Golyer were so confident of finding oil that when Louisiana Land & Exploration asked them to "shoot" (i.e., prospect) its holdings along the Louisiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Great Hunter | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Bruce Munro accepted a cigarette and stretched back contentedly in one of the overstuffed armchairs in the Dillon Field House Lounge. He blew a cloud of smoke towards the follow with the camera who had just photographed the varsity soccer team and began reminiscing about the one really bright spot in the Harvard-Yale weekend, the booters' 3 to 2 overtime upset over the Elis...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/28/1952 | See Source »

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