Word: pattersoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tough School. Jack Lait is one of the hard-schooled, shrewd, and devoted $52,000-a-year men who make the Hearst-papers what they are. Born in lower Manhattan, Lait went to school in Chicago with the late Eleanor Medill Patterson. He broke in on the police beat for the late Chicago American, covered the rise of gangs, lived through the rough & tumble Front Page days...
Left by Washington's Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson: to seven newsmen, her newspaper, the Washington Times-Herald (see PRESS) ; to her daughter, Countess Felicia Gizycka, virtually all her personal belongings, an estate on Long Island, an estate in North Dakota, a $25,-000 annual income; to Mrs. Evelyn ("Evie") Robert, flamboyant Times-Herald columnist (Eve's Rib), Washington business properties, her black pearl earrings, a sable scarf; to the Red Cross, her Washington home at 15 Dupont Circle; to various charities "aiding needy children, especially homeless and orphan children," the residue of her multimillion-dollar estate...
...publisher, Eleanor Medill Patterson knew how to employ the carrot as well as the stick. In benign moments she used to tell top hands on her Washington Times-Herald that when she died, the paper would go to them. Last week, in her will, she made good on her promise. The Times-Herald, valued at around $7,000,000, was left to seven faithful executives. Overnight each of the seven became a millionaire. Her estate will even pay the inheritance taxes. The lucky seven: ¶ Editor-in-Chief Frank C. Waldrop, 42, who never crossed the boss, became an executor...
...inheritors will remain in their present jobs, with Shelton likely to be elected the boss. How well they will get along without Cissie Patterson to drive them was debatable. But rival Washington newsmen thought the syndicate would make good if its members could keep from quarreling among themselves...
Columnist Drew Pearson last week paid his last respects. Wrote he: "A great lady died the other day-a lady who had caused me much happiness-and much pain. She was my ex-mother-in-law, Eleanor Patterson, who used to write about me in such scathing terms that even the very frank TIME Magazine had to interpret them with dots and dashes ... Sometimes Page I featured headlines about 'the headache boy'-Cissie's description of her ex-son-in-law . . . Today, Senator Brewster of Maine has his offices stacked high with 75,000 reprints...