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...Emporia (Kansas) Gazette's late, great William Allen White...
William Allen White left his half interest in the Emporia Gazette to his wife. Three quarters of the shares are now hers, the rest belong to their son William Lindsay (They Were Expendable) White. To his wife the late editor also left an unappraised estate-listed in probate court at a value of $68,500-and $65,000 in insurance. For each of 14 employes whose Gazette service amounted to 20 years or more he specified a gift of $1,000. At week's end the Gazette's masthead was revised to read: "W. A. White, Editor...
Died. William Allen White, 75, most famed contemporary Kansan, independent Republican, main street philosopher, author of 15 books (including biographies of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Coolidge); after long illness; in his native Emporia, where for 49 years he had edited the Gazette, making it the most quoted of all country newspapers. To his widow and son, William L. White, who succeeds him (TIME, Jan. 31), came a telegram from a frequent Gazette editorial target, Franklin Roosevelt: "He ennobled the profession of journalism . . . a real sense of personal loss . . . we had been the best of friends." The U.S. had lost...
Bill White was cradled in the Gazette's wastebasket, while his father worked with his mother over its forms. When he was big enough to hit a front porch, young Bill White had carried the Gazette. He had penned its Emporia high-school notes. He had been the Gazette's reporter, copyreader, business manager, circulation manager, associate editor, finally publisher...
...past eight years, fortune far greater than any Emporia could give had come to square-jawed Bill White. He became a syndicated columnist, war correspondent, author of three best-selling war books (Journey for Margaret, They Were Expendable, Queens Die Proudly), a roving editor of Reader's Digest...