Word: gills
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Longtime Harvard administrator Fred L. Glimp '50 says Gill is "as close to a Renaissance man as I've ever met," calling his former colleague "the kind of a guy that--if he weren't so nice and so kind and impressive in a human way--everybody would hate him because he's so dog-gone good at almost anything he puts his hand...
...father Thomas G. Gill worked for a billboard advertising firm hit hard by the economic crisis of the 1930s; Richard lived what he called a "tight, but very happy childhood," drawn to vocal performance by his mother Myrtle, a music teacher...
...Gill met his future wife Elizabeth at a community concert when they were both 15. Their relationship was "stormy off and on," Elizabeth Gill says, "but ultimately...
Placing second out of more than 100,000 students in a national American Legion Oratorical Contest in high school, Richard Gill came to Harvard in 1944 and led the Debate Council as its president, winning the College's Coolidge debate prize and delivering the Class Oration senior year...
...congenial man to interview, Gill was apparently quite the fighter--both behind the podium and in the ring--as an undergraduate...