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Don Gillis, a sports anchor for decades in Boston; at 85

By Marvin Pave
Globe Correspondent / April 25, 2008

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While working atop a telephone pole on a raw winter day in Nantucket shortly after his discharge from the Navy in 1946, Don Gillis remembered the advice from a teachers at New Bedford's Holy Family High School. (Full article: 832 words)

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