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...Martin took his text from the late Strickland Gillilan's Finnigin to Flannigan. It seems that Railroad Section Boss Finnigin was writing overlong accident reports to Superintendent Flannigan, who told him to cut them down. One day some cars left the tracks, but the train soon went on its way. Concluded the verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Birth of the 84th | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...would rush ("I haven't had time to figure it out"), but she was in a mood to celebrate. One evening later, coquettishly holding hands with Reno Hotelman Charles Mapes, Bobo showed up at a big stone castle on Lake Tahoe, where an even richer lady, Elsinore Machris Gillilan, a bride of 70 who inherited $20 million from her previous oil-drenched husband, was tossing a small, make-believe Hawaiian luau (a beach wassail where revelers cry "Oahu!"). There was no poi or okolehau, but there were oodles of orchids and leis, flown in from the Islands, and, ignoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 16, 1954 | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

Died. Strickland Gillilan, 84, oldtime Midwest newspaperman turned humorist, best known for his 1910 Irish-dialect railroader poem, Finnigin to Flannigan ("Off agin, on agin, gone agin.-Finnigin"); in Warrenton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

Strickland Gillilan of Washington, D. C. is a veteran newspaperman, onetime president of American Press Humorists, best known as author of the line: "Off agin, on agin, gone agin, Finnigin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prophecy | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Ohio University, had died in Athens, Ohio at 97. They had good reason to remember Dr. Super. When they were undergraduates together at Ohio University more than 40 years ago, President Super rose solemnly before the whole college one day, pointed a solemn finger at them and cried: "Gillilan, Shepard and Johnson-I haven't the slightest doubt that all three of you will end up in a penitentiary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prophecy | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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