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...since The New Yorker set up in business," said a small passage in The New. Yorker's Talk of the Town last week, "and things have changed either greatly or not at all . . ." Thus, with the elaborate casualness that is as much its trademark as the elegant Eustace Tilley who annually adorns its cover, did The New Yorkernote its 25th birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lovable Old Volcano | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

Elaine Tanner '50 of Moors Hall and Brookline, the only female student on the list, will use her fellowship to study political theory at Cambridge University. Charles Tilley '50 of Lowell House and Elmhurst, Illinois, will continue his work in Sociology at Oxford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Annex Win 2 Henry Fellowships | 2/8/1950 | See Source »

Benjamin F. Tilley, charged with being an accessory after the fact to the $50,000 Coop robbery in January 1948, was found not guilty in Middlesex Superior Court yesterday on a directed verdict by Judge Vincent Brogna...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judge Acquits Tilley Of '48 Coop Robbery | 11/23/1949 | See Source »

...Tilley was released largely on the testimony of Anthony J. Novicki, one of five men now serving sentences for the theft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judge Acquits Tilley Of '48 Coop Robbery | 11/23/1949 | See Source »

When Canadian confederation was agreed upon in 1866, the conferees in London had trouble common to parents everywhere: what to name the baby. Canadians would not take "colony," and Britons vetoed "kingdom." New Brunswick's Sir Leonard Tilley found inspiration in Psalms 72:8-"He shall have dominion also from sea to sea." From that, according to legend and Lady Tilley, the Dominion of Canada got its name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: The Meaning of Words | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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