Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feud between Winchell and Cissie Patterson is strong enough to account for a great deal. Winchell admitted that his opinion of Cissie is partly unprintable. According to a Washington story, she has said: "There isn't a night goes by that I don't get down on my knees and pray that they take the off shore duty and put him on a destroyer that will sink...
...given to him) autographed by Franklin Roosevelt before auctioning it off at a Navy Relief benefit. But he let out the news that he would quit Hearst's King Features when his juicy contract expires Nov. 15. Reason: to stop the sale of his column to Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson, publisher of the Washington Times-Herald. Cissie is the sister of Captain Joe Patterson (New York Daily News) and cousin of Colonel Robert McCormick (Chicago Tribune), and works hard to keep up with the menfolks...
...more concern to Winchell than Cissie Patterson's prayers were similar remarks made in Congress. House Naval Affairs Committeeman Melvin Maas declared that "Winchell should be assigned to duty at Samoa or permitted to resign." Naval Affairs Committee Chairman Carl Vinson asserted: "I can tell you right now that I have advised the Navy Department either to call him [Winchell] into active service or to disenroll...
...Post next August, for similar reasons, will also go the Washington Merry-Go-Round of Drew Pearson and Bob Allen, who recently took advantage of a clause in their contract to give Cissie Patterson six months' notice of cancellation...
...Board Dive-Won by McCutcheon (H); second Patterson (H); third, Sanford (C). Winner's Points...