Background
White, William Lindsay was born on June 17, 1900 in Emporia, Kansas, United States. Son of William Allen and Sallie (Lindsay) White.
White, William Lindsay was born on June 17, 1900 in Emporia, Kansas, United States. Son of William Allen and Sallie (Lindsay) White.
Student Kansas University, 1918-1920. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1924.
Reporter on Emporia Gazette, 1914, later circulation manager, managing editor, editorial writer, associate editor public, editor, 1944-1973. Staff Washington Post, 1935, Fortune Magazine, 1937. War correspondent for 40 American daily newspapers, also representative Columbia Broadcasting System, European correspondent, 1939-1940.
Christmas, 1939, broadcast from Mannerheim Lincolnshire in Finland.
Awarded first prize by National Headliners Club as year’s best European broadcast. Went to England on one of 50 former American destroyers to represent North American Newspaper Alliance and Reader’s Digest in London winter of 1940-1941.
Became roving editor The Reader’s Digest, 1942. Chairman Republican County Committee, Lyon County, 1933-1934.
Member Kansas State Legislature, 1931-1932.
Director American Friends of Middle East, American Committee for Liberation, American Association Indian Affairs. Overseer Harvard, 1950-1956.
Member Kansas State Legislature, 1931-1932. Director American Friends of Middle East, American Committee for Liberation, American Association Indian Affairs. Overseer Harvard, 1950-1956.
Fellow American Numismatic Society.
Member American Civil Liberties Union (past director), Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association (director), Freedom House (director), American Society Newspaper. Clubs: Century.
Married Kathrine Klinkenberg, April.