Word: patterson
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Whatever the reason for these discrepancies, the Press made the most of them. Here was not only the mysterious death of a tycoon, but of a man of the Press? an occasion for extra zeal. Paul Patterson, Mr. Black's publishing associate, satisfied investigators that Mr. Black, a drinking man, had not been drunk. The suicide angle was dropped when Mr. Patterson explained that Mr. Black's estrangement from his wife was a ''happy mismating." But front-page stories for two days stressed the variance in the ships' reports, expressing by their emphasis and alertness a professional suspicion that there...
Important among NYRBA's assets is its board chairman, able William Patterson MacCracken Jr., onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, who conducted the negotiations with P. A. A.'s able, youthful (31) President Juan Terry Trippe. He will probably join the P. A. A. administration...
While Hearst and Patterson-McCormick newspapers snapped and snarled at each other in Chicago last week (see col. 2). a curious alliance was effected in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson (sister of Joseph Medill Patterson and cousin of Robert Rutherford McCormick, co-publishers of Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and Liberty} became editor-in-chief of Hearst's Washington Herald...
Like many another widow of wealth, social prominence and energy, Mrs. Patterson has had the problem of finding a career. Of the third generation of a publishing family, she has long inclined in the family direction, has tried to buy first the Washington Post, then the Herald. She also offered to lease the Herald. In last week's announcement of her new connection, the Herald said: "Hearst papers are not for sale. . . . Mrs. Patterson will work . . . under the regular Hearst newspaper contract...
Whether or not Editrix Patterson takes to her job any great knowledge of daily publishing, she is well-posted on the social lore of the capital, which she has already exoloited in signed articles and a novel (Glass Houses?TIME, March 15, 1926"). For years she has been one of Washington's up-&-doing hostesses. She acquired the title of countess through her marriage with Count Joseph Gizycka, Austrian-Pole, whom she met in St. Petersburg and Vienna and married in 1904. After their divorce in 1908 she appealed to the Tsar, won custody of their daughter Felicia...