Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trustee No. 1, of A. G. & E.'s top company "Co.," is a meticulous, retiring lawyer's lawyer named Walter Pollak. His background: special assignments from such a top-notch reorganization jurist as Judge Robert Patterson in the job of unraveling the I. R. T. He also defended the Scottsboro boys in the U. S. Supreme Court. Relatively free from political complications is Co., really just a set of very complicated books, made to order for bookish Trustee Pollak...
Martha called up Eugene Meyer (no friend of Cissie Patterson), who owns the Washington Post. Gleefully the Post printed on its own society page: "Mrs. Charlotte B. Nast, Ian Wilson-Young to wed - Mrs. Arthur Krock receives word of betrothal in London...
...couple of days Martha Blair handed free stories to the Post. Then, having shown Cissie Patterson who could get the news, she subsided. To her friends she said: "Now that I've got all the vixen out of me, I'm through." Mrs. Patterson's friends said that Cissie was amused...
...charming Mrs. Krock and the intense Mrs. Patterson had met socially several times last week since they parted professionally. There were no eruptions. Some of her friends thought they heard Mrs. Krock say one evening: "Well, thank God, I've still got Arthur Krock...
...York Times pays Pundit Krock over $25,000 a year, so Martha Blair can get along without her job. The Times-Herald supports so many female reporters, columnists, critics that Washington newsmen call it "Cissie Patterson's henhouse." Cissie has a weakness for firing her columnists in a fit of temper, then hiring them back at a bigger salary. By week's end, knowing her own failing, Mrs. Patterson had fled to Nassau...