Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since Joseph Patterson's death last May, the season's most fascinating speculation among newsmen has been: will the Chicago Tribune's terrible-tempered Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick move in on Patterson's New York Daily News? (Circ...
Brunette Bootsie started out as a leg-woman for her husband's old column, These Charming People, in Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. When Igor was drafted in 1943, "Cissie" Patterson let Bootsie step in as his wartime substitute. Washingtonians liked the substitute better than the original : her stuff was not deep, but it avoided the catty approach that once got Igor tarred & feathered (TIME, July 3, 1939). As the daughter of an old and horsy Virginia family, in whose house Igor took refuge after being tarred, Bootsie had a better entry into Capital society...
Although Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson recently announced that the Army hoped to obtain new men through the recruiting program, voluntary enlistments during July ran about 9,500 a week, or a drop of almost two-thirds below the fixed figure of 25,000 a week...
...benefit of newsmen, Jimmy publicly hit the sawdust trail. Said he: "I've never been on the far left. I have been just slightly left of center." But he was far enough to have given ill-concealed primary support to Rogers' Communist-supported opponent: Ellis Patterson...
...writer. He regards his promotion as more of the same formula that gets Collier's its 2,846,052 circulation: slight, slick fiction; articles serious in subject, light in treatment; the simple, direct editorials of Reuben Maury who (for a price) writes another kind for the late Joe Patterson's New York Daily News. Says Editor Davenport: "I intend to edit the magazine from a reporter's viewpoint. No ivory tower...