William Allen White
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Allen White (February 10, 1868, Emporia, Kansas -- January 31, 1944) was a renowned American newspaper editor.
White purchased his hometown newspaper, The Emporia Gazette [1], in 1895, serving as its editor until his death. White's editorials made the Gazette perhaps the most influential and respected American small town newspaper of its time. He received a Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for his editorial "To an Anxious Friend," published July 27, 1922. Influential on the American political stage in the first half of the 20th century, White was an early supporter of the Progressive Party spearheaded by Robert M. LaFollette, Sr..
White married Sallie Lindsay in 1893. They had two children, William Lindsay, born in 1900, and a daughter Mary, born in 1904. William, a Harvard graduate, succeeded his father as editor of The Emporia Gazette upon his death in 1944. Mary died in 1921 horse-riding accident, leading White to write a moving eulogy in The Emporia Gazette.
Contents |
[edit] Quotations
| “ | A rift in the clouds in a gray day threw a shaft of sunlight upon her coffin as her nervous, energetic little body sank to its last sleep. But the soul of her, the glowing, gorgeous, fervent soul of her, surely was flaming in eager joy upon some other dawn. | ” |
| “ | The boys who died just went out and died. To their own souls' glory of course -- but what else? ... Yet the next war will see the same hurrah and the same bowwow of the big dogs to get the little dogs to go out and follow the blood scent and get their entrails tangled in the barbed wire.[1] | ” |
[edit] Trivia
- The pop/rock musical group They Might Be Giants used giant cardboard cutouts of White's face in their early stage shows and music videos from the 1980s.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Sherry, Michael S. (1997). In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930's. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300072635. Page 26 Quote from 1933
