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...crew saga of University of Washington, in which Harvard began a new chapter last week, started when famed Gilmour ("Gloomy Gil") Dobie went to Washington as football coach in 1908. As trainer and rubber Coach Dobie had a onetime bicycle-racer and Chicago White Sox baseball trainer named Hiram B. Connibear. Washington had just decided to have an eight-oared crew, handed the job of coaching it to Trainer Connibear, who had not only never seen a college crew before but never even rowed a boat. It was Coach Connibear who made Washington the producer of almost...
Famed for its crew-which this year won the Intercollegiate and Olympic championships-its ski teams and its swimmers, the University of Washington's football prowess was great from 1908 through 1916, when its coach was famed Gilmour ("Gloomy Gil") Dobie, later at Cornell, now at Boston College. The year before Dobie arrived, Washington lost four games and the year after he left, it won only...
...India's Emancipator, the Abraham Lincoln of 350,000,000 souls, Sir Sam cannot quite see. Therefore he absolutely demanded and got the Foreign Office as a minimum reward, ousting Sir John Simon, who was made Home Secretary last week, thus ousting into limbo Sir John Gilmour. one of the hardest-working, least appreciated Home Secretaries in many a year...
...ditch of sensationalism. First a spokesman for 26 peace organizations uprose to charge that two members of the present Cabinet owned shares in the great munitions firm of Vickers: the Right Honorable Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary for the Colonies (25 shares); and the Right Honorable Sir John Gilmour, Home Secretary (3,066 shares). "It cannot be healthy," said the peace spokesman, "if it is known that members of the Cabinet may be in a position to benefit personally, however slightly, from the breakdown of armament negotiations...
...their recent hot debate on the abuse of clapping the King's subjects into jail for debt (TIME, March 11) crowned last week by a remarkable circular letter to British magistrates from Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour, who urged greater leniency from the bench toward debtors unable...