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When General Butler saw the newspaper, he rushed to Editrix Eleanor Patterson of the Herald, demanded retractions. Smart Mrs. Patterson stalled for time, tipped off the Press that General Butler had appealed to Secretary of the Navy Adams to create a diplomatic incident. Minister Bellegarde, flustered, protested that he had been misunderstood, misreported. He explained that he had not meant to deny the existence of the fort but merely to state that he had never seen or heard of it because all of its "ill-equipped"' native defenders were killed and a strict news censorship prevailed at the time...
...more energy, more zest than most rich women Eleanor Medill Patterson, daughter of Chicago's potent newsfamily, would never have badgered William Randolph Hearst into letting her edit his Washington Herald. (He said "No" when she wanted to buy it.) Last week Editrix Patterson, who cannot settle down in Washington but gads about the country for the fun of reporting, hinted that she had espied Professor Albert Ein stein on the Mojave Desert's brim in the nude...
...reporter was Arthur Brisbane. He has climbed up his ladder-like column of daily aphorisms to Journalism's highest wage: $250,000 yearly. He pontificates. He used to tell people not to sell the country short, and will again. As from Olympus he answered in his column, Today, Editrix Patterson's question about interviewing nudes...
...Author. Carl Van Doren, 45, one-time literary editor of the Nation, long-time lecturer on English and U. S. literature at Columbia, is head editor of the Literary Guild, husband to able Literary Editrix Irita Van Doren of the New York Herald Tribune. Author Van Doren has always liked Swift, has been trying for years to find time to do a book about him. Other books: The Life of Thomas Love Peacock, The American Novel, The Roving Critic, Many Minds, James Branch Cabell...
...deep-rooted Washington belief is that Mrs. Nicholas ("Princess Alice") Longworth, wife of the Speaker of the House, exercises a potent backstage influence on U. S. politics. When Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson (onetime Countess Gizycka) became editrix of William Randolph Hearst's Washington Herald last summer, she attracted notice with a signed front-page declaration to the effect that the only political assistance Mrs. Longworth could render Senate Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick in Illinois was posing for photographs. It appeared that the Countess was out to explode the "Princess" legend, for business or other reasons. Last week Editor Patterson...