Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: May 1968, Paris, Seine, France
• Residence: 1970, London, England

Notes:

Source: “A Real (beach) Bum”

   Say the phrase “beach bum” in Margate and the words “Christopher Cook Gilmore” come back faster than the echo of wave slapping a steel-hulled boat.
 “I take my measure of a man by how much time he spends on the beach,” Gilmore said recently. Gilmore, 58, is the son of the late Eddie Gilmore, who won a Pulitzer in 1947 for his dispatches from Moscow for the Associated Press. Christopher Cook Gilmore is a writer of note himself, having published six novels and hundreds of short stories and articles. If there is an occupation made for beach bums, it’s writer.
 But Gilmore has become many other things to support his beach habit. He is a carpenter, mechanic, substitute teacher and, occasionally, a sailing instructor for topless French women. When he’s not traveling abroad he rises at maybe 6 a.m., writes until 10 a.m. or noon and then is free to pursue that which interests him, and that which interests him usually involves something on the beach. His skills in the waves on his 14-foot Hobie catamaran are near legendary. Sometimes it’s the women walking by that interest him, and his skills with women are… well, never mind. Who knows what’s true and what occupies local storytellers? Suffice it to say that Gilmore appreciates natural beauty. “A day without love,” he said, “is a day without sunshine.”
 He has held only three “real” jobs, as an Associated Press correspondent for a year and, for two years, as a teacher in Absecon and as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, which was his way of honorably avoiding fighting in Vietnam.
 He was a lifeguard during high school, but he doesn’t count that because it wasn’t year-round. “That’s what ruined me for working during the summer,” he said. “After that I would never do anything that would keep me off the beach on a hot sunny day.”
The best he can do now is to substitute teach for Ocean City High School. “I tell them don’t call me more than twice a week and only when it rains,” he said.
 He has learned to live simply. His car is a ’71 Triumph Spitfire. He lives in a wing of his mother’s house in Margate a block from the beach. He has no children and no ex-wives, but he does have a steady girlfriend. He owns a small motorboat, a garvey. He does have a cell phone, which he sometimes uses to order subs while he’s on the beach, which he gets delivered to the bulkhead.
 Come cold weather all he needs is an airline ticket to someplace warm - Bali, or Borneo or Madagascar or maybe Southeast Asia. Sometimes he brings his Hobie. For a time he lived in a tent on a beach on St. Martin, next to the boat, which was also next to a rasta bar, where his job was to give sailing lessons to topless French girls. He has a fondness for the French language, which he attributes to his ability to consort with the natives.
“I’ve lived with a lot of French women,” he said. “I’ve lied in French, made love in French…”
 This is what being a beach bum can be like if you are really, really good - and dedicated. But this style of beach bumming cannot be pursued from an office in center-city Philly. It requires commitment, retraining and a willingness to give up the suits, the cars, the fancy houses, the kids, the spouses, the retirement, the security, the fancy boats… but, hey, we’re talking topless French women here.
 If there’s anybody who can explain what it is about the beach, it’s Gilmore.
 “It’s a Zen thing,” he said. It’s the confluence of the sea and land - where they meet, the synthesis of land and sea. When I’m there I feel the immense power of the sea. The thing is, all the problems we have happen on the land, and when we look out at the sea they vanish, and we realize the only thing that matters is the right now.”
 Thanks, Gilmore, thanks for giving us that look into a style of beach bumming that most of us will only dream about.

Source:

Christopher claims to have spent an entire winter writing short stories in a blue tent on top of a sand dune on the coast of southern Morocco - without getting a grain of sand in his typewriter. Christopher travels extensively, speaks six languages and hasn’t had a day job in years. He is the author of Atlantic City Proof, The Bad Room and Road Kills among others. He divides his time between his homes in Morocco and Atlantic City.

Christopher married Sharon Irene STONE on 1 Jan 1966 in Margate City, Atlantic, New Jersey, and was divorced on 30 Jul 1970 in Richmond, Virginia. Sharon was born on 16 May 1945 in New Albany, Floyd, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anita STEWART. Anita was born about 1962. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1929, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia
• Census: 1930, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia
• Occupation: 1932, Washington, District of Columbia; Journalist for the Washington Daily News
• Occupation: 1936, Washington, District of Columbia; Associated Press
• Residence: 1936, Alexandria, Virginia
• Occupation: 1940, London, England; Associated Press
• Military Service: 16 Oct 1940, Silver Spring, Montgomery, Maryland
• Occupation: 1941, Moscow, Russia; Associated Press
• Occupation: 1954, London, England; Associated Press

Notes:

Gilmore, Eddy Lanier King, born on May 28, 1907, in Selma, Al., attended the local elementary school of his home town. In 1923, he enrolled at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. Later on he continued his studies at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he became graduated in 1928. After graduation, he offered his services, gratis, to the Atlanta Journal in Georgia in order to gain experience as a newspaperman. In 1932 he moved to the Washington Daily News where he worked for three years before joining the Associated Press in December, 1935, reporting mainly for the Washington bureau of the news agency. In April, 1942, AP sent him to its Moscow bureau. He was thus able to cover the fighting on the Rostov, Stalingrad, and other fronts, and in 1945 Gilmore became head of the Moscow AP bureau. One of his ‘scoops’ in the following time was his interview-by-mail with Stalin in 1945 on the eve of the first meeting of the United Nations held in the U.S. FOr his work he was awarded the National Headliners Club Medal in March, 1947. Eddy L. K. Gilmore was made the 1947 PPW in the “Telegraphic Reporting (International)” category for his correpondence from Moscow. (Source : Complete Biographical encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners, 1917-2000 Volume 16. Edited by Heinz Dietrich Fischer)

GILMORE, Eddy Lanier King, 1907-1967
Journalist. Born: May 28, 1907, Selma. Parents: Eddy Lanier and Evelyn (King) Gilmore. Married: Tamara Chernashova, July 13, 1943. Children: Three. Education: Studied at Washington and Lee University, 1925-1926; graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1928. News reporter for Atlanta Journal, 1929-1932; Washington Daily News, 1932-1935; Associated Press after 1935. Worked for Associated Press in Washington Bureau, 1936-1940; London Bureau, 1940-1941 and 1954-1967; Moscow Bureau, 1941-1954. Lecture tours in America during 1953-1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, and 1966. National Headliners Club Award as best foreign correspondent, 1946; Pulitzer Prize for telegraphic reporting from Moscow, 1947.

“The capital of the Third Reich is a heap of gaunt, burned-out, flame-seared buildings. It is a desert of a hundred thousand dunes made up of brick and powdered masonry. Over this hangs the pungent stench of death… it is impossible to exaggerate in describing the destruction… down town Berlin look as like nothing man could have contrived. Driving down the famous Frankfurt Alee, I did not see a single building where you could have set up as business of even selling apples.” Eddie Gilmore, Associated Press, Berlin, June, 9th, 1945.

Associated Press Pulitzer Prize Winner 1947 - Eddy Gilmore, for news reports from Russia, especially an interview with Joseph Stalin.

Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 5R; Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4; Me and My Russian Wife.
Author: After the Cossacks Burned Down the “Y”. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1964.
Me and My Russian Wife. Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, 1954.
Troika. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1962.

Eddy married Margaret COOK in 1938, and was divorced. Margaret was born on 16 Oct 1910 in Washington, District of Columbia; died on 5 Jan 2011 in Margate, Atlantic, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Email from: Christopher C. Gilmore

To: Barbara Skinner
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 4:58 AM
Subject: Re: Genealogical research...
 Eddy Gilmore married three times. His first wife was Barbara. In 1938 he married my mother, Margaret Cook, born 1910 and still going strong. I was born in 1940 when my parents lived in Washington DC. Eddy went to Russia, divorced my mother, and married Tamarra in 43. He died in London in 1957. I met him three times.
 I’ve just asked my mother what if anything she remembered Eddy saying about Barbara. Her only story is that she didn’t know that he was married before, until he told her, bursting into tears, on their wedding night. I seem to remember her telling me or reading somewhere that Eddy and Barbara went to college together. He went to Carnegie Tech.
 I have for 25 years been the Writer in Residence at Shakespeare & Co. Librarie, 37 rue de la Bucherie, Paris.
 Ciao

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Edwin Luther Gilmore

Edwin married Evelyn KING. Evelyn was born on 22 Aug 1877 in Pearl River, Neshoba, Mississippi; died on 11 Dec 1962 in Hastings, East Sussex, England; was buried in Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Dallas, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]