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Died. William Lindsay White, 73, editor and publisher of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette and son of William Allen White, the Pulitzer-prizewinning "sage of Emporia"; of cancer; in Emporia. A World War II correspondent for 40 daily newspapers, White in 1942 wrote They Were Expendable, a novel about PT-boat combat in the Pacific that was made into a John Wayne movie. Returning to Emporia in 1944 after his father's death, he maintained the Gazette's reputation for lively editorials...
With so little time remaining before the scheduled unveiling date of May 29, speedy coordination between the City and the Kennedy Corporation over the design is necessary. Without this planning, the Kennedy Library will be just a collection of fond trivia -- a valentine from Caroline, a coconut shell from PT 109, an ivory model boat from Nikita Khrushchev -- within a Harvard Square disrupted by tourists clicking their Instamatics...
CECIL STOUGHTON keeps colliding with Presidents, camera firmly in his grip. He did the picture of John Kennedy on Inaugural Day of 1961, waving to the crew of PT-109 on the parade float. It was his picture of Jackie Kennedy in the little sleigh on the snow-covered south lawn that became the President's Christmas card in 1962. Cecil was out at Atoka, Va., the Kennedy country place, on the weekend before Nov. 22, 1963. He took the pictures of John-John marching with a toy gun and helmet and saluting-a salute that the three-year...
...truck that crashed head-on at 80 mph, miraculously killing only seven out of eight occupants). The front-page maze of banner headlines luring readers to inside pages gave way to a single full-column headline atop the new paper; there will be no more 60 pt. "Reds Repelled in Viet Rocket Attack" leading to a five-inch AP story on Page...
Consolation prizes were given to other contestants, as well. Sarah Groves and Dixie Brown won the "I hope nobody recognizes me award" for the worst constructed craft. The most anybody could tell was that it had something to do with milk cartons. David Little and Bill Burke won the "PT 109 Award" for the best design for speed that lost anyway The "Carpenter Center Award" for the most creative craft went to Robert Livingston and his bag filled with balloons, and Mickey Mouse copped the "Cecil B. deMille Award", for the "biggest production...