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Among Manhattan sports editors, the Hearstian Mirror's mustached Dan Parker is the heftiest (260 Ibs.), the most cynical about fight promoters (he keeps needling their racket), and on good days, the poor man's Eustace Tilley.* Dan Parker had some fun with the Bronx tongue in his Dialectician's Dictionary. Samples...
Police believe that the ex-convict had recently returned from Florida after seeing Anthony Novicki, the Dedham trigger-man in the holdup, who was arrested in Miami Tuesday. Miami authorities alleged that the Tilley couple of Boston, also arraigned Tuesday, had flown to Florida bearing funds to bolster Novicki's spotty finances...
Northeastern spares--Heavey, Berry, Rando, McEwen, Conroy, Sikalis, Darling, Johansson, Nason, Blanchard, Makris, Tilley...
Last week on the cover of the New Yorker, Eustace Tilley took his annual gander at a pink butterfly. Inside, back among the brandy and perfume ads appeared a feature not nearly so old as Eustace Tilley, but already as much of a standby: the quietly perceptive weekly Letter from London. (Last week's topic was the coal crisis: "like living a bad patch of the war all over again...
...week, it had generally managed to confine its twinges of social conscience to an occasional sententious One-World outburst on a page usually devoted to more urbane - or supercilious - matter. It seemed to believe that no one should talk in a loud voice about anything. But last week Eustace Tilley, the New Yorker's butterfly-watching dandy, was a man with a message...