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...Orleans, Dorothy (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer) Dix, most durable (since 1896) of all the advice-to-the-lovelorn columnists, who admits to being almost 80, was in Touro Infirmary after suffering a stroke...
...game with the Redskins. He shook hands all around, then made his speech: "Now go out there and win that game for me." The Redskins did in a shifting, fast-moving finale that included passes by the aging master, 35-year-old Slingin' Sammy Baugh, and Understudy Harry Gilmer, a skittering, 74-yd. run down the sideline by Pete Stout. After coming from behind to win, 27-14, the Redskins carried Coach Whelchel off the field on their shoulders...
Larry Hatch of Washington, Harry Gilmer of Alabama, and Army's Arnold Tucker, all with interceptions, paced the Varsity halfback in total snatches...
...Murders to Heart Mends. Elizabeth Gilmer got her biggest break in 1901, when William Randolph Hearst lured her to Manhattan. She carried a wad of "get-home money" in her stocking, for her first six weeks in the big city. But she stayed, to become the greatest sob sister of her day. From the Harry K. Thaw trial to the Hall-Mills case, no big murder was complete without her. In 1920 she tired of it, told her city editor that if she ever covered another murder it would be his, and flounced off to New Orleans to concentrate...
Respectable Woman. To keep abreast of the woeful tide, Mrs. Gilmer is up at 7 a.m. With a stenographer and her companion-secretary, she zips through her daily grist with a sharp eye out for the "angle" that will cue a sermonette. Every afternoon her chauffeur drives her through Audubon Park and back to the swank Prytania Street apartment. Her stock wisecrack, when showing guests her fine Louis XIV bed: "I'll bet I'm the only respectable woman who ever slept...