Word: emporia
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...that Editor Heiskell was in any hurry to let go. At 76, he still gets to his office about 8 in the morning. The office, piled high with books and papers, is more cluttered than William Allen White's used to be at another famed Gazette, in Emporia. Once a reporter asked for a typewriter he had seen buried in the office, and Heiskell crustily denied that it was there. A janitor dug in and found not one machine but six. "If they'd dug a little deeper," cracked a newsman, "they'd probably have found...
Owners of local emporia were jubilant yesterday because publishers stocks were ample to meet the needs of the still-bulging University. Ellsworth Young, owner of Phillips Book Store, commented, "The stock situation is much better and we have plenty of books...
Against the well-intentioned advice of nearly every Kansas GOPolitico, he announced his intention of making his sixth campaign for the Senate. "Young Bill" White, son of Emporia's late sage, was sure he knew why: Alf Landon had put him up to it to bleed votes from Capper's rival in the primary and Landon's archfoe, ex-Governor Andrew Schoeppel. White said so in an Emporia Gazette editorial. In a tearful statement, Capper replied that Young Bill was mistaken; the decision to run was "mine and mine alone...
...famed Emporia Gazette ladled Christmas bonuses to its employees out of a wheelbarrow full of silver dollars...
...Providence. The Legion of Decency has condemned it. And in New York Francis Cardinal Spellman looks askance upon the multi-million dollar "historical" drama. 'Yet yesterday, in more or less unexpurgated fashion, Amber and her playmates opened a probably interminable run at a couple of the smaller Boston cinema emporia. This may be liberalism of a sort, or this may only be a sign of bluenose forgetfulness, but, sad to say, it doesn't represent any kind of progress in the matter of quality...