Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...porcelains, a Ph.D. in criminology from the university at Edinburgh, his native city. He liked to shut himself up in his office with a basket of fruit and play symphony records. But he also had a good head for figures, and that made him immensely valuable to Eleanor Medill Patterson. He was her treasurer and confidant, and for 15 well-paid years his polished head and briefcase bulged with her undivulged secrets...
Four months ago, after a squabble with his imperious boss, he had left the paper, but had stayed on as her personal fiscal adviser until shortly before her death. Then, six weeks ago, he had learned that a codicil to Cissie Patterson's will had cut him out of a million-dollar share in the Times-Herald when she left it to seven other company officials (TIME...
...afternoon last week, Porter neatly packed his three bags. In one he put his will, written in the hotel room four days before and naming Mrs. Patterson's housekeeper his executrix. He laid his hat, watch and glasses on the dresser. Shortly afterwards, his body crashed through the screen of an open window of his room and landed on the sidewalk, six floors below...
Protested: the will of Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson, late publisher of the Washington Times-Herald; by her only daughter, Countess Felicia Gizyclca (exwife of ex-Patterson Columnist Drew Pearson). Felicia, who ran away from home at 18, had been left most of Cissie's personal effects, some real estate, and an income of $25,000 a year for life. But the estate totaled better than $16 million (the Times-Herald was left to seven executives). Felicia protested to the court that her mother was not of "sound mind and memory" when she made the will, and that...
...became the Journal-American's "Cholly Knickerbocker" three years ago. (Cholly waited until last week to mention Bootsie's new name. And Bootsie, say friends, is miffed because Ghighi remarried before she did.) When she tried to syndicate the column, her boss, the late Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson, said no. But now the lid was off: Washington newsmen expected Bootsie to be syndicated throughout the Hearst chain. And fellow gossip Danton Walker even predicted that she would show up high, on the crosstrees of Hearst's Town & Country's masthead...