The Press: W.L.W. for W.A.W.

The leader editorials of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette (circ. 7,000) were signed W.L.W. once again last week. Young Bill White was taking up where he had left off eight eventful years before, subbing for his famed father, William Allen White.

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...

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