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...Utah's state prison, slight, bearded, ageless (according to him) Hiram Bebee, sentenced to be shot for the murder of a Mt. Pleasant town marshal, took a highly philosophical view of the news that he had been granted a new trial. Said he: "Physical death is unimportant to me. I have lived many times before and will live many times in the future." The Bebee formula for indefinite life: "proper eating and thinking...
Young or old, the GARsters had strong opinions on the state of the union which they helped save. Said Osborn: "Brother, there's not a free man in this country." Said Hiram R. Gale, 99, who flew in from Seattle: "There's too much selfishness and dishonesty...
...Hiram W. Evans, big-time Georgia contractor and onetime Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, got a bill from the Treasury for $257,763.27 in back taxes...
...nearly 40 years ago, shaggy-haired Hiram Conibear, ex-trainer of the Chicago White Sox, stood on the shore of Lake Washington and cussed through a megaphone, so loud that his University of Washington oarsmen could hear. When parents objected, Conibear confessed: "I have to cuss a little in order to bluff my way along." Washington's new crew coach didn't know the first thing about rowing...
...maximum power at the end of a long layback stroke, was not only unsound but uncomfortable. He taught a short stroke with a "sock" as the blade entered the water; the men were sitting upright at the end of the stroke, and ready for a quick recovery. In 1917, Hiram Conibear was killed (when he fell out of a cherry tree) but Washington crews went east year after year to win fame at Poughkeepsie. Last week, for the first time, eastern crews went west to race on Seattle's Lake Washington...