Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Excited as a hungry terrier was Bryan Patterson when erosion revealed a deposit of old bones in a pasture near London Mills, 111. Out of the glacial blue clay came parts of a hind leg, pelvis, forefoot, vertebrae, a molar tooth. Back in Chicago's Field Museum, where he is Assistant Curator of Paleontology, Patterson pieced the fragments together. Last week he announced that he had one of the finest fossil ground sloths discovered in the U. S. since 1796. In that year the huge, extinct beast was first studied and named Megalonyx by a great U. S. paleontologist...
This was not completely silly. Megalonyx jeffersoni is so recent that its bones sometimes bear wisps of hair. Paleontologist Patterson thinks that cave men helped to exterminate the creatures though "an embrace from a sloth would have made a bear's hug look like child's play." In expecting to bag a Megalonyx, Jefferson was not "wrong by more than a few thousand years." As bone-diggers measure time, this was only day before yesterday...
...publicity apparatus (now being reorganized)-Major General Robert Richardson of the Cavalry; Lieut. Colonel Ward Maris of Field Artillery, no newsman but a discerning publicist of small patience with bureaucrats; Major Art Ennis of the Air Corps; Lieut. Colonel Ginsburgh, liaison officer between Under Secretary of War Patterson and the public, graduate of Harvard University, ex-reporter on the New York Morning World...
...quarter-century, through hell & high water, Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson had cherished beyond all other friends his pal Max Annenberg. They had met when Max, forsaking Hearst, was strong-arming his way up as powerful circulation builder for the Chicago Tribune; friendship had deepened as the German-Jewish ex-newsboy pushed circulation of Publisher Patterson's New York Daily News to the largest...
...Patterson...