Theodore White, RIP. (obituary)

From: National Review | Date: June 20, 1986| Author: | Copyright information

THEODORE WHITE, RIP

NEW YORK, MAY 21

IT IS SO with very few people who are discreetly hospitalized, but when Theodore H. White was struck down at his desk on the Friday afternoon, by Sunday morning it seemed as if half America knew of it, even though there had been no notice in the press. Friends, friends of friends, and friends of theirs relayed the news, because everyone cared so deeply who had read his books, and especially those who knew him. The sensation was on the order of hearing that fire threatened the library at Alexandria, the storehouse of great deposits of ...

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