Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Lee memorial fellowship to Gardner Patterson 1G, of Burt...
...merger of three small-town newspaper services. W.N.U. is the oldest, biggest syndicate in the U. S., with more clients than all other syndicates combined. Now an $8,300,000 corporation, it began with eight customers in 1865 as the A. N. Kellogg Newspaper Co. Pat Patterson,* Missouri-born, son of an itinerant Methodist minister, turned up in Chicago, aged 19, and landed a job at $10 a week reading and clipping papers for Kellogg. For ten years Patterson turned out twelve columns a week on travel, household hints, agricultural news, women's fashions...
...Patterson at 69 still goes to his office each morning at 9:30. At noon he usually wanders over to the Adventurers' Club (his qualifications for membership: 36 summers spent fishing in Canadian woods) to idle away the afternoons swapping yarns with a drink at his elbow. Mild-mannered, spry, Pat chews an unlighted cigar while he talks in a voice so low that it frequently dies away to a mumble...
...Patterson had expected to retire last week on his 50th anniversary at W.N.U. but changed his mind. Although he dislikes Franklin Roosevelt so much that he stayed away from the Democratic convention in 1936 (the first convention he had missed since McKinley was nominated in 1896), this year he wants to stay to cover the Republican and maybe the Democratic conventions. Then in November he will go to California, and retire...
...Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of the New York Daily News, Sister Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson, publisher of the Washington Times-Herald...