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...them why they spend all this creative energy either on the job or drinking it off, and they will probably confess that they do it to support a family they rarely see and in whom they have no more than a patron's interest. The losers among them, like Tilley (Danny DeVito), just want to score big. The winners, like B.B. (Richard Dreyfuss), just want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shark Parade TIN MEN | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

Maine led 1-0 after the first period before the Spartans scored three times in the second period on goals by defensemen Don McSween, Tom Tilley and Bruce Rendall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NCAA Hockey Tourney Wrap | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

...Salinger. To many observers, the elegant weekly seemed not only steeped in tradition but nearly immutable, from its stubborn tenancy of a warren of cramped offices on Manhattan's 43rd Street to its whimsical insistence on printing its foppish inaugural cover every February: the high-necked Eustace Tilley espying a butterfly through an upraised monocle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Changing the Guard At 60 | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...magazine so bedazzled by its own tradition-repeating every February its original cover of a dandy, Eustace Tilley, eyeing a butterfly through a monocle-The New Yorker has changed a lot. There have been two New Yorkers. The original reflected its founding genius, Harold Ross. ("Its general tenor will be one of gaiety, wit and satire," the prospectus said. "It will hate bunk," and would not be "edited for the old lady in Dubuque.") Its clever, brittle style survived the Depression but seemed frivolously out of sync when World War II began. So, war coverage was introduced, culminating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Trouble in Paradise. Yes, Trouble | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...Susan Tilley, secretary to the chief of police, said this week that the new "airy" atmosphere and additional space will be important to the staff's working attitude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Move To Garden Street, Expect Greater Quad Security | 12/10/1980 | See Source »

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