Word: patten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is nothing earth-shaking about the Hanson family, there is nothing inconsequential either. The scripts, by Writer Frank Gabrielson, are often toughly realistic. Son Nels (Dick Van Patten), pushed too hard by family pride, is shown cheating in an exam for grades to impress his parents. Mama herself, expertly played by Actress Peggy Wood, is human enough to get in a temper just because she's having a bad day. Earnest, bumbling father Lars (Judson Laire), who often wears his head, as well as his heart, on his sleeve, can be as calamitously wrong in business as over...
...Daily News writer wrote his tutoring school story after visiting the school's office under the pretence of needing a geology theme written. The theme he received earned him a 42 but the tutoring school claims the writer, Andrew Patten, failed to embellish properly on what was only an outline...
...Religion has been doing a good selling job," said E. N. Jacquin of the Champaign (Ill.) News-Gazette. "Religious promotion efforts, plus the perplexities of modern life" were the causes, said M. H. Williams of the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram-Gazette. David Patten of the Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin answered: "Religious people seem to want everyone else to get religion...
...four months an Oakland jury listened as disillusioned disciples told of C. (for Cash, he explains unabashedly) Thomas Patten's talents. There was a caterer who said he had given Patten $10,000 ("I never had but a few dollars to give my wife''), a $35-a-week charwoman and her husband who had handed over...
...shot of morphine from a hovering nurse. Last week an ambulance rushed Tom, resplendent in yellow silk pajamas, from an Oakland hospital to the courtroom to hear the jury's verdict. It found him guilty of stealing $14,750 from his followers (maximum penalty: 50 years). Said Tom Patten, flat on his back but still cocky: "There'll be a battle royal before they get me behind bars...