Word: patten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose organ-toned voice, as the lawyer in radio's Amos 'n' Andy, first attracted Producer Disney's attention. Uncle Remus addicts are not likely to quarrel about the oversweetened characterization. With the exception of Baskett and two likable children (Bobby Driscoll, 10, and Luana Patten, 7), the live actors are bores...
...season under the no less Shakespearean title of Love in Idleness (TIME, Jan. 1, 1945). It tells of an attractive, broke widow who has been living in gay, sumptuous sin with a wartime British Cabinet Minister. Then her priggish, pinko 17-year-old son (well played by Dick Van Patten) comes home after five years at school in Canada. He forces his mother to choose between him and her lover and (possibly because a show must keep going until 11 o'clock) she chooses the son. But by 11 o'clock the son has decidedly mellowed...
...Street & Smith, Nick Carter (in real life, Colonel Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey) pounded out a novel (30,000 words) a week. Burt L. Standish (William Gilbert Patten) manufactured 30,000 words a month about Frank Merriwell. Other S. & S. standards: Oliver Optic (William T. Adams), Horatio Alger...
...General. The Ninth's commander is called "Texas Bill" Simpson. He is also called a doughboy's general because he loves the infantry. With Georgie Patten, who is one of his West Point classmates, he loves to argue the relative merits of tanks and foot soldiers...
Died. Gilbert Patten ("Burt L. Standish"), 78, author-creator of famed fictional Hero Frank Merriwell, whose 1,236 marvelous paperbacked adventures thrilled millions of American boys at the turn of the century; of a heart attack; in Vista, Calif. Working on a salary (highest: $150 a week) for Publishers Street & Smith, Standish never received a royalty payment from the sale of 125,000,000 copies of his best-selling 5? thrillers...