Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that one of the members of the West's team last week at The Orange Lawn Tennis Club was Wilmer Hines of Columbia, S. C., another, Charles Harris of West Palm Beach, Fla. Harris lost his match to Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had beaten Leonard Patterson of Los Angeles the day before, but those were the only points East won. Hines thrashed saturnine Manuel Alonso, onetime Spanish Davis Cup star, playing for the East, 6-3, 7-5, and the series ended...
President F. B. Patterson...
...week. It began immediately after Banker Meyer bought the decadent Post at auction from the McLean estate two years ago. Until then the Post had carried, exclusively in Washington, the comic strips of Andy Gump, Winnie Winkle, Gasoline Alley, Dick Tracy. While the Post was in receivership, smart Editor Patterson deftly slipped in, snapped up the comic strip contracts for her Herald. Into court marched irate Publisher Meyer, insisting that the old contracts (with Chicago Tribune Syndicate) belonged to him alone (TIME, July 24, 1933). For the next 20 months, while lawyers wrangled, injunctions were issued and dismissed...
Also, obediently, the Herald dropped the forbidden comic strips next day. But its Sunday color pages, already made up, included those features. "Cissy" Patterson asked Publisher Meyer's permission to publish them that one last time, sparing her the expense of a last-minute change. Hesitantly Mr. Meyer agreed on condition that the Herald print a front-page box acknowledging the Post's courtesy. "Cissy" Patterson asked time to consider. The deadline came & went, with no further word from "Cissy." Thereupon the Post published its own announcement that the Herald would appear next day with Sunday comics...
Matching the Post in bad humor "Cissy" Patterson then sent her chauffeur to Eugene Meyer's home with a gorgeously decorated box. Inside was her card inscribed: "So as not to disappoint you.' Beneath a spray of freesia, sweet peas anc forget-me-nots, Publisher Meyer found pound of raw meat...