Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patterson stalked out to her office, stared coldly at Caniff and asked: "Ever do anything on the Orient?" Caniff hadn't. "You know," Joe Patterson mused, "adventure can still happen out there. There could be a beautiful lady pirate, the kind men fall for. . . ." In a few days Caniff was back with samples and 50 proposed titles; Patterson circled "Terry" and scribbled beside it "and the Pirates...
...moody genius of the Daily News knew how to make the modern mass-circulation daily an attractive grab-bag, with prizes to please either sex and every taste. Critics might object that newspapers should be newspapers, and censure anything else in them as a regrettable defection from duty. But Patterson recognized that readers wanted something that was part almanac, shopping guide, magazine and variety show as well as news bulletin board. Like U.S. radio, the press dealt in news, entertainment and commercials; the amount of each might differ, but the ingredients were the same. Patterson's mixture called...
...anatomist, recalls. "Women are always harder to draw than men. And there's the nudity problem . . . you just have to know how much is in good taste. Once in a while, if I hadn't had a good-looking babe in the strip for a while, Patterson would send me a note saying how about bringing in the Dragon Lady or some other chick. And he used to hate it when the balloons were too long. ... I didn't agree with many of the things he did in his last years. He seemed to feel that...
...readers was when he had Terry Lee win his wings in China. Terry and the readers got a long, stern graduation speech from his commander Flip Corkin on courage, skill and honor among airmen. That Sunday page was read into the Congressional Record. An aide showed it to Patterson, who growled: "Who does Caniff think he is, Robert Emmet Sherwood?" ("He had to go and name a playwright I admire," says Caniff.) Once Caniff, excited by the morale value of his strip, suggested that the Daily News be sent free to remote post exchanges. He got a curt no from...
...querulous peeps out of Colonel Bertie McCormick's Chicago end of the Tribune-Daily News axis. Sample: early in 1941 he was informed that Colonel McCormick "objects to Defense Bond stamps being used in the comics, so will you please refrain from using them." And once McCormick and Patterson, reading Terry together, came to a sequence where the lissome Burma was carrying on with a German named Keel. "Why," said the Colonel, turning to his cousin in alarm: "Burma is living with that...