Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last fortnight Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson was reading an early edition of her Washington Times-Herald. She called her office. Said Cissie: "Martha Blair bores me - kill the column." So pressmen ripped open the forms, jerked out These Charming People by Martha Blair, a column about Washington's social stratosphere...
Martha Blair's copy for next day was already written. Meanwhile, volatile Cissie Patterson had suffered a change of heart: the column stood. But Martha Blair (who is also the wife of the New York Times's Arthur Krock) had had enough of Cissie's whims...
Though she had counted on the $100 a week she got from the Times-Herald to help put her two sons (by a previous marriage) through college, Martha Blair handed in her resignation. Cissie Patterson accepted...
Pete Peterson's undefeated Yardling swimmers took Exeter Academy into camp Saturday afternoon in the local pool, 34 to 32, in a meet featured by Bus Curwen's 55.9 century victory and Shaw McCutcheon and Bill Patterson's one-two finish in the dive...
Shaw McCutcheon and Brad Patterson, topnotch Yardling divers, together with Bus Curwen, distance man, and Bill Drucker, backstroker, ought to be the point winners for '43. The first-year men will elect a captain after the meet. From the spectator's point-of-view, the contest should be of unusual interest...