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Anathema to eloquent, high-minded Editor-Publisher William Allen White of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette, is the U. S. newspaper comic strip. He vowed that only "over my dead body" would his newspaper ever print a funnypaper...
...other publishers have been finding out that funnypapers are potent moneymakers (TIME, Feb. 18). And at the age of 67, the Sage of Emporia has long since learned to compromise. In excellent health last fortnight, Editor White issued the week-end edition of his newspaper with not one but 29 comics in a gaudy 16-page tabloid. Moreover, the entire news section was printed in tabloid to conform. It had taken a brash young salesman for United Feature Syndicate six months to change the White mind but now, reminded of his oldtime vow, Editor White was ready to say: "That...
...Golden Anniversary Banquet of the Inland Daily Press Association in Chicago, Publisher William Allen White of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette observed his own golden anniversary as a newsman by saying: "In these 50 years we have seen what seemed a successful system grow slowly and mount steadily to a fair approximation of justice. Then out of God knows where came the change. . . . Where did the money come from? And where the devil has it gone? I am without rudder, anchor or compass. I don't know what is the matter...
Virtually the same condition occurred last week at Quanah, Tex. (110°); Phoenix, Ariz. (116°); Hays, Kans. (117°); Belleville, Kans. (119°); Emporia, Kans. (112°). Over a vast area including Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas the daytime temperature did not fall below 100?...
...Malaikah Temple Shrine, of which he is an enthusiastic member, popped him into print again. Cavorting with 35,000 fezzed brethren in a ''Streets of Delhi" scene. Shriner Gettle took one "nautch girl" on his knee, wiggled a finger at another while photographers took his picture. Emporia's Editor William Allen White told the graduating class of the University of Kansas: "We have dumped at the portals of your life one of the most elaborate metallic scrap heaps that the history of civilization has recorded. A gaudy bauble it is. It shimmers with the simulation of bright...