William White

William S. White, World War II correspondent, political reporter, columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, died of a stroke Saturday. He was 86. He covered Washington and World War II for the Associated Press, then joined the New York Times in 1945. He was the Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1958 when he left to write a syndicated column that appeared in 175 newspapers nationwide. "The Taft Story," his biography of Robert A.

Gilbert F. White, a geographer whose lifework on human interaction with the environment proved influential in the world ecological movement, died of dehydration Oct. 5 at his home in Boulder, Colo. He was 94. White, who won the National Medal of Science in 2000, helped forge international cooperation on water systems in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa, fought the spread of deserts and warned in the 1970s about the impact of human behavior on the global climate.

"Bravo Biennials" by Mary Ellen Guffey (Nov. 17) gave all of us gardeners our money's worth. The pictures were superb, the article excellent. William White Santa Monica

The phrase "island hopping" refers to the grand strategy of the American armed forces in the South Pacific during World War II, but it takes on a whole new meaning in "Santa Catalina Island Goes to War," a charming and illuminating scrapbook of photographs, documents and artifacts from the moment in history when Catalina was suddenly transformed from a tourist destination to a military outpost.

I was disappointed by the absence of flower and gardening stories (in your new magazine) but the Nov. 17 issue changed that. "Bravo Biennials" by Mary Ellen Guffey gave all of us gardeners our money's worth. The pictures were superb, the article excellent. William White Santa Monica

The principal of Canyon High School, which has been rocked in the past year by reports of racial tension and episodes of violence, has announced that he will step down in June from his position at the Canyon Country school. William White volunteered to take an undetermined job at the district level as part of an administrative reorganization designed to cut costs, said Dennis King, president of the William S. Hart Union High School board of trustees.

Gilbert F. White, a geographer whose lifework on human interaction with the environment proved influential in the world ecological movement, died of dehydration Oct. 5 at his home in Boulder, Colo. He was 94. White, who won the National Medal of Science in 2000, helped forge international cooperation on water systems in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa, fought the spread of deserts and warned in the 1970s about the impact of human behavior on the global climate.

William White has been practicing medicine and listening to his patients' stories for 33 years in Sierra Madre. And he's worried that those stories, which tie yesterday's characters to today's tiny foothill town, are "disappearing as the people disappear." "There's such a wonderful history that we will lose unless we record it," he says. The best way to do it, White figures, is to save a place that seems to be home to so many tales.

Lawrence William (Bill) White, 63, vice president and general manager for KTTV (Channel 11) in Los Angeles during the 1980s. He began his TV career in 1964, and worked at Kaiser Broadcasting television stations in Cleveland, Boston and San Francisco. After leaving Los Angeles in 1987, he joined Media General and became general manager for stations in Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla. In Jacksonville on Sunday of cancer.

Loverne Morris doesn't really know the meaning of the word retirement. In 1967, when she came to San Diego and officially retired from a newspaper career that spanned three decades, she turned to writing books and free-lancing for such publications as Ms. Magazine, True West, and Highlights for Children. Now, at age 91, Morris awaits publication of a children's story she wrote about her life as an 8-year-old growing up in Kansas.

William White has been practicing medicine and listening to his patients' stories for 33 years in Sierra Madre. And he's worried that those stories, which tie yesterday's characters to today's tiny foothill town, are "disappearing as the people disappear." "There's such a wonderful history that we will lose unless we record it," he says. The best way to do it, White figures, is to save a place that seems to be home to so many tales.

Lawrence William (Bill) White, 63, vice president and general manager for KTTV (Channel 11) in Los Angeles during the 1980s. He began his TV career in 1964, and worked at Kaiser Broadcasting television stations in Cleveland, Boston and San Francisco. After leaving Los Angeles in 1987, he joined Media General and became general manager for stations in Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla. In Jacksonville on Sunday of cancer.

William S. White, World War II correspondent, political reporter, columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, died of a stroke Saturday. He was 86. He covered Washington and World War II for the Associated Press, then joined the New York Times in 1945. He was the Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1958 when he left to write a syndicated column that appeared in 175 newspapers nationwide. "The Taft Story," his biography of Robert A.

The principal of Canyon High School, which has been rocked in the past year by reports of racial tension and episodes of violence, has announced that he will step down in June from his position at the Canyon Country school. William White volunteered to take an undetermined job at the district level as part of an administrative reorganization designed to cut costs, said Dennis King, president of the William S. Hart Union High School board of trustees.

Robert Dewey gets a faraway look in his eyes and his voice takes on a certain reverence when he talks about his hometown hero, Kansas newspaper editor William Allen White. "He was a prairie philosopher, the voice of the Midwest, the quintessential American, really," said the retired minister in an interview in his Claremont home. Dewey has researched White's career and read most of the Pulitzer prize-winning editor's writings. But Dewey takes his esteem for White far beyond polite admiration.

Loverne Morris doesn't really know the meaning of the word retirement. In 1967, when she came to San Diego and officially retired from a newspaper career that spanned three decades, she turned to writing books and free-lancing for such publications as Ms. Magazine, True West, and Highlights for Children. Now, at age 91, Morris awaits publication of a children's story she wrote about her life as an 8-year-old growing up in Kansas.

Ten years ago, Michael Reynolds published "Hemingway's First War: The Making of 'A Farewell to Arms,' " which in several ways was a landmark publication. It avoided the cliches of Hemingway criticism, the constant Romantic references to Hemingway's life as a basis for the Hemingway "code hero."