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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...
...wrote again with his old vigor. The country felt his weight until he died. Canada had long offered him honors: a Cabinet post, appointment as first Minister to Washington, a knighthood. Dafoe had said: "Me a knight? Why, I tend my own furnace and shovel snow off my porch." He would, he said, remain a writing man. A writing man he died...
...warm afternoon in May, John J. Pershing stepped out of a limousine at the White House and clumped across the porch leaning on his cane. France had been invaded. Photographers raised their cameras but the old man wrathfully lifted his cane...
...after a visit with his mother at Owosso, Mich., he hopped off the boat, was whisked away in a four-seated carriage. Soon he was holding a press conference for the 100 newsmen lounging in big wicker chairs at G.O.P. headquarters in the elegant, white-colonnaded Grand Hotel ("longest porch in the world...
...these damaging circumstantial points stood one for De Marigny: Nancy's faith and the preparations she has made for experts' aid if the case comes to trial. But as she left the courtroom one day last week, she stumbled blindly on to the court's back porch, sobbing without restraint. She did not know that the street below was filled with spectators...