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Simultaneously down with flu at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital were the Sage of Emporia & wife, the William Allen Whites. They hoped to leave soon for Santa Fe and Estes Park, Cob. to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at the scenes of their honeymoon. Said the Sage, now 75: "The last time, I was a 25-year-old editorial writer. . . . Sallie was a 22-year-old schoolteacher. We had a railroad pass from the paper." Said Mrs. White, commenting on the separate rooms which kept them from nurse-forbidden talk: "You might think we'd be talked out after...
Last week, from a stanch old Republican oak with roots deep in the soil of the Midwest, dropped the first rebellious acorn. In his Emporia Gazette, Editor William Allen White attacked Ohio's Governor John W. Bricker resoundingly...
...most sapient reporters, with a special knack for observations which others have felt but never quite got down in Will White's bumblebee prose. Fortnight ago Editor White, back home from a trip to Washington and New York, stuck his stubby legs under his rolltop desk in the Emporia Gazette office and dictated three editorials. Once again, Editor White came up with much that was simple, clear and knowing...
...where he reported for the Journal, which he left in 1892 because he felt it was slipping (it folded in 1942). In Kansas City he met and married Sallie Lindsay, a school teacher (their soth anniversary: this coming April 27). Then, in 1895, he borrowed $3,000, bought the Emporia Gazette...
...those days the Gazette had competition from the Emporia Republican. Circulation was 485, payroll $45 a week for two girl typesetters, a shop foreman, two reporters who also hustled ads. Circulation last month: 7,139 (Emporia's population: 13,188); White's payroll, $1,200 a week for 38 employes. The Republican had been erased...