Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airlines, which have had their fill of bad news lately, gulped a few more swallows last week. They came from United Air Lines President William Allan Patterson. Said he: "All airlines (with the possible exception of Eastern) will lose money in the last quarter...
...operation on the liver. A 17-gun salute was fired, the flag was hauled down to the accompaniment of ruffles and flourishes. Uncle Joe would have snorted at such solemn ceremonial. But just 24 hours before he died, he had got his dying wish: on orders of War Secretary Patterson, he received the Combat Infantryman Badge...
...letting his son fill in. Before long, young Clarke became picture editor of Manhattan's first "picture newspaper." He left for an eight-year stretch on the World, skipped back in 1930 before the World's end, stepped into his father's old job in 1939. Patterson turned him into a past master of the devious techniques of tabloid journalism...
...talent, including Poison Penman John O'Donnell and Broadway Columnist Danton Walker, who has a crystal ball suffering from cataract. One of Clarke's chores is a daily conference with Editorial Writer Reuben Maury and Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor (who used to get their signals from Patterson). Sitting in with them now is a brand-newcomer, quiet, 44-year-old Donald Thompson, an American Weekly graduate. Clarke hired him to backstop Maury. Thompson expects no trouble in adapting himself to Daily News policies-plugs for the metric system, a world calendar and isolationism, slugs for Russia...
Last week there was no sign that the Daily News, in losing Patterson, had lost his "common touch." Its headlines still crackled (IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT, u.s. ANSWER TO TITO); its editorials were still full of beans. Its latest comment on those who would share, or ban, the atom bomb: We SAY IT'S SPINACH AND WE SAY THE HELL WITH...