Word: emporia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee plans to supply magazines and newspapers for such a room by asking editors to give free subscriptions of their publications. William L. White '24, editor of the Emporia Gazette, will assist Paul C. Smith, the committee chairman, in soliciting the funds and subscriptions...
Died. Brock Pemberton, 64, Broadway producer who put on the early plays of Zona Gale (Miss Lulu Bett), Sidney Howard (Swords), Maxwell Anderson (White Desert) and Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A Kansas-born onetime reporter for William Allen White's Emporia Gazette (1908-10), Pemberton first introduced to theatergoers such stars as Walter Huston, Miriam Hopkins, Claudette Colbert and Fredric March. His biggest success came late in life (1944), when he produced Broadway's fifth longest run, Harvey...
Failing this, it is up to reporters to get the news anyway. If the late great William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette could attend a Washington press conference nowadays, concluded Reston, "I think ... he would feel . . . that [reporters] had become a little too courteous . . . He'd want to know why there was just a handful of the large corps of Washington reporters probing into these life & death questions of atomic energy, the organization of the armed services, the conduct of our foreign policy ... I imagine he would tell us that officials in Washington or Emporia had always sought...
Other nominees are Robert Cutler '16, Boston, Finance; John T. Noonan '19, Boston, Law; Jack I. Straus '21, New York, Mercantile Business; Geoffrey S. Smith '22, Philadelphia, Finance; William L. White '24, Emporia, Kansas, Journalism; Neil H. McElroy '25, Cincinnati. Manufacturing; and Henry Chauncey '28, Princeton, New Jersey, Education...