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Blue-Blooded Liberal. Gil Winant is a blueblood, son of an aristocratic New Yorker who made a fortune in real estate. As a boy at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., he was awkward, scraggly, uncouth; he concentrated on American history, barely crawled by in his other subjects. As a Princeton undergraduate, he left college in 1912 to campaign for Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Winant Reports | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

Veterans of last year who are expected back for the opening practice session for the whole team next Monday are Ed Buckley, Captain Lou Clay, Bart Harvey, Bill Hausserman, Gil Whittemore, Jay Gleason, and Bill Barnes...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: Baseball Prospects Bright As Practice Starts Officially | 2/3/1942 | See Source »

Will Dalrymple, Captain Kay Rogers, Jack Jillson, Bill Ellis, Joe Scott, Bob Troescher, Hugh Tuttle, John McCulloch, Gil Stewart, and Hans Hackmann. The first Yardling to finish was McCulloch and the second was Hans Hackmann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON HARRIERS BLANK B.U. CROSS COUNTRY TEAM EASILY | 10/11/1941 | See Source »

Heavily favored Gil Stewart, Senior runner who has captured first place honors for two years in a row, was kept out of the contest by a bothersome toothache. Also missing from the three mile grind were several Varsity men who were prevented from starting because of illness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JILLSON VICTOR IN HARRIER HANDICAP | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...week as gingerly as a man who feels he is loaded with dynamite and may blow up if anybody bumps into him. He had reason to step warily. Before he left England, the British Government had shown him a confidence that few Ambassadors have received. It turned over to Gil Winant an account of British war plans and British war experiences, as well as analyses of Britain's shortcomings, tragic mistakes, and lessons learned, at a frightful cost, during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: What Winant Said | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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