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Crowds were small during first meetings of many courses yesterday morning, but as classes and dining halls emptied, book emporia gradually became inundated...
Moguls of many of the local pinball emporia, however, sharply disagreed, as they contemplated their vanishing trade. "It's all a communistic plot to run as eat of business," one of them said. "This vacation stuff is all wrong. Why they can get all the vacation they used any afternoon at the pinball machines. Why, what has New York got that we haven't? Chicago? Detroit? Miami? Nothing, Nothing...
Fruit of Toil. In Emporia, Kans., a city official got an emergency garbage collection call, dispatched three men in a one and a half ton truck, wound up with an apple core...
Young Willie White was highly conscious of belonging to Emporia's "ruling class." So it is not surprising that about a quarter of his 669-page autobiography is a nostalgic recall of the golden goodness of 19th-Century, mid-American boyhood-the swimming hole, sleigh rides, girls, Indian scares, boy fights, boy jobs...
...Populism (whose grievances and politics were later to find expression in Roosevelt I's Square Deal and Roosevelt II's New Deal) did Willie begin to brood upon the other half at all. By then Willie had become William Allen White, owner and editor of the Emporia Gazette, which he was to make the loudest small-town editorial voice of the U.S. When Populists roughed up dudish Editor White on the street, he reacted in an editorial broadside, What's the Matter with Kansas? His answer: Populism. The editorial made Editor White a national figure and helped...