Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing that New York Daily News Publisher Joseph Patterson knows for sure is comics. He used them shrewdly to build his tabloid's record daily circulation (1,975,000). He cooked up several comics (the Gumps, Moon Mullins, Dick Tracy), launched the technique of continuing the episode instead of ending it each day. But until last week he had not bought a new strip for nine years...
...sheet, but the Chicago Tribune-New York News syndicate, like most others, has a 50-mile territorial limitation on comics. So Alicia invented her own. It is scheduled to begin about Nov. 1 in eleven papers, including Father's News, Cousin Bertie McCormick's Tribune, Aunt Cissy Patterson's Washington Times-Herald and Alicia's Newsday...
Name of the strip given it by Father Patterson, is Deathless Deer. The deer is no Bambi but a beauteous, dark, ruthless Egyptian princess who suffers death in the fourth installment. Awakened 3,000 years later (today) in a U.S. museum, she is ready for 20th-century adventures...
Monday mornings, the 2,000,000-odd readers of Joe Patterson's New York Daily News start the week with a good slug of anti-New Dealism called Capitol Stuff. Its author is the News's sardonic, dapper, Roosevelt-baiting Washington correspondent John O'Donnell. Last week Ribber O'Donnell was in fine choleric fettle...
...magic money, not real money." "The ideal love affair is one conducted by post," he told Author Pearson. One such love affair he conducted for years with Actress Ellen Terry. He had no sex life until he was 29, when he was "virtually raped" by Jenny Patterson, one of his mother's singing pupils. But he decided sex relations were "hopeless as a basis for permanent relations...