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...leader editorials of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette (circ. 7,000) were signed W.L.W. once again last week. Young Bill White was taking up where he had left off eight eventful years before, subbing for his famed father, William Allen White...
...people's mind was, as grass-root William Allen White's Emporia Gazette stated in plain singletalk, the question whether they can "believe the reports and statements of our leaders ... in this war." The people did not shout for General Patton's scalp. There were editorial shouts and much dinner-table clamor-and humorists in the Army's monstrous Pentagon Building in Washington sang: "Pistol Packing Patton Laid that Private Down." But PM's honest editor John P. Lewis admitted that his mail was running almost 5-to-1 against the paper's high...
...Emporia, Kans., pop. (in 1940) 13,188, (in 1943) 12,183. Emporia has no doctor shortage, because it has lost only five doctors to the services. The remaining 20 (two on the verge of retirement) are busier than usual because of the lack of doctors in outlying towns. As in Rutland, a shortage of nurses is developing-43 of the town's 49 student nurses are in the Government-subsidized Cadet Nurse Corps. TIME'S correspondent says that Kansas generally still has enough doctors. Even Wichita, which has boomed from 114,966 to 184,115, can make...
...Emporia, Kans. Gazette's sage old William Allen White prognosticated for the North American Newspaper Alliance: "I am one of those rare birds who believes that Roosevelt may not run for a fourth term...
...Bricker ("An honest Harding. Thumbs down!"). Individualist White has never cared for teeming mobs. Now Editor White put both dislikes together. Plump Governor Bricker had finally plumped for internationalism (TIME, July 5). Veteran Internationalist White eyed the swelling crowd of internationalists, was suddenly seized with ochlophobia. In his famed Emporia, Kans. Gazette, Editor White fumed his way through a maze of metaphors toward the nearest exit...