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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Huckleberry Finn, with Thomas Mitchell, Elizabeth Patterson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...month by major U.S. airlines. Executives from United, T.W.A., American, Eastern and Pan American have reached the horse-trading stage with rival Planemakers Douglas and Boeing, are shuttling between the two firms dickering over prices and specifications on the Douglas DC-8 and Boeing 707. United President William A. Patterson has put spurs to both by stating that he will soon order 25 jets worth $125 million "from either Douglas or Boeing," depending on which has the better plane. Orders at stake: possibly 125 planes, worth $625 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Aug. 29, 1955 | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

Publisher Patterson had seized a rare opportunity to buy a big magazine on its way down. In the hotly competitive race for the farm market, Curtis' venerable (102-year-old) Country Gentleman has been stumbling. "The magazine," says one competitor, "has become a sort of a Mother Hubbard, covering everything and touching nothing.'' Since its peak war years, Country Gentleman has been gradually losing advertising. Curtis started to try to bail out the sick monthly last year by changing its name to Better Farming, but the transformation had barely started when along came the offer from Farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Room with a View | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...Farm. The purchase was the latest in a long series of successful changes made by the Farm Journal's Graham Patterson, 73, a good-humored, pink-cheeked publisher who ran the Christian Herald before he took over Farm Journal in 1935. Patterson watches his health as closely as he watches his magazine, keeps fit with frequent bowls of oatmeal, always sprinkled with a laxative which he carries with him wherever he goes. Once in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a friend approached tiny (5 ft. 3¾ in.) Publisher Patterson and prankishly asked whether the grits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Room with a View | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...Patterson's diet for the Farm Journal has made it grow every year since he took over. He threw out the magazine's ponderous, technical farm features, replaced them with over-the-fence news for farmers. To separate his rural but non-farm readers from farmers, in 1943 he bought the newsweekly Pathfinder, later changed its name to Town Journal (circ. 1,592,615), and reset its editorial sights to lure small-town nonfarm readers. To increase Farm Journal circulation, Publisher Patterson and President Richard J. Babcock, 43, started three regional editions, printing specialized news and information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Room with a View | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

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