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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...
...active Republican, he has fought Democrats all his life. His political activity hit top in 1936 when Kansan Alf Landon was running for President...
...Ghost Again. The ghost of Prohibition leered out from behind the pillars. Fumed Representative Edward H. Rees, dry-throated Kansan: "While we are asking people to cut down the use of fuel and lighting in their homes, schools and churches, drinking places in Washington and other cities are well heated and well lighted until early morning...
...Oklahoma Aggies are outreached in one respect by University of Kentucky's Wildcats. Kentucky has as coach big, burly Adolph Frederick Rupp, a Kansan who learned his basketball from Phog Allen. Under Rupp's tutelage, Kentucky has won the Southeastern Conference basketball championship six times in ten years, last spring defeated mighty Illinois in the Eastern play-offs for the national collegiate championship...
...There he learned to fly and got a pilot's license. For his administrative work he earned the admiration of Manuel Quezon, who subsequently pinned a D.S.C. of the Philippines on him. But it was when he came back to the U.S. in 1940 that the hard-working Kansan began...