Word: colins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the mud made ball-handling very difficult, the three-quarters and forwards, led by Sam Adams and Colin McIntyre respectively, showed excellent teamwork...
...Telegraph's erudite gossip column, "London Day by Day," by "Peterborough" (Hugo Wertham), an unobtrusive item recorded an exceptional occurrence at the Telegraph itself. After 48 years on the staff, 70-year-old Editor Watson was retiring. His successor, who took over last week: grey-haired Colin Reith Coote, 56, deputy editor and Watson's right-hand man for the last five years...
...star rugger player at Rugby and Oxford, Colin Coote was a captain in the British army in Italy in 1917 when he was elected to Parliament to fill a vacancy caused by the death in action of another M.P. At 24, Coote became the youngest member of the House of Commons. But the general election of 1922, recalls Coote, "was the first time the voters really had a crack at me-and that ended my political career." Ex-M.P. Coote became a foreign correspondent and later chief editorial writer for the Times; in 1942 he moved over...
Over the years, the Telegraph has boasted some notable bylines, including Teddy Roosevelt, David Lloyd George, Thomas Masaryk and T. E. Lawrence (whose Seven Pillars of Wisdom was first serialized in the Telegraph). As deputy editor, Colin Coote himself promoted the Telegraph's biggest prize, the Churchill wartime memoirs, a project shared also by LIFE and the New York Times. New Editor Coote plans no major changes in the Telegraph's impartial news coverage or its Conservative editorial policy. Says he: "We have succeeded to some extent in being serious without being dull. I hope we shall never...
...second half both teams threatened--Sam Adams was stopped on the Westmount one-yard line, and Crimson fullback John Densmore made a spectacular tackle to halt a Westmount three-man rush. Green made the only second-half score. Colin McIntyre and Len Wheeler also starred for the Crimson...