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...thousands of troubled women who have turned hopefully to Dorothy Dix, none ever found a happier solution than the first. She was Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, sheltered daughter of a genteel but impoverished Tennessee family, and her problem was how to make a living. At 25, with an ailing husband to support, tiny Mrs. Gilmer was a women's-page slavey on the New Orleans Picayune, where she had started at $5 a week...
...name she took became the most famous byline of any newspaperwoman's. Last week, when "Dorothy Dix" turned 50, her creator was a lively 75. Both were still going strong, Miss Dix as an oracle in 216 papers, Mrs. Gilmer as a grande dame of New Orleans with an annual income of more than $75,000. Her column held a record for longevity, beating out the Katzenjammer Kids by a year and Beatrice Fairfax...
...Post's rambunctious history began one day in 1895 when blue-eyed, roly-poly Harry Tammen, bartender at Denver's Windsor Hotel, strolled into the littered city room of the old Evening Post. At his side was a new-found friend, swarthy, wax-mustached Frederick. Gilmer Bonfils (pronounced bonn-fees), a dashing promoter who had just cleaned up $800,000 in the notorious "Little Louisiana" lottery. To weary Postmen playing poker, Harry Tammen drawled: "Don't let us disturb you but we've just taken over this paper...
...Alabama, unbeaten mostly because of a bull's-eye passer named Harry Gilmer. Last week, he tossed 19 passes, completed 13, three of them for touchdowns. Score: Alabama 28, Georgia...
...South, Alabama's blond thread-needle passer, 180-lb. Harry Gilmer, star of last year's Sugar Bowl game, put 'Bama on a pre-season par with powerhoused Georgia Tech and Duke-which last week flattened South Carolina...