Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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McCormick & Patterson. The two newspapers with the largest circulations in the U. S. are the New York Daily News (daily 1,226,000, Sunday 1,416,000) and the Chicago Tribune (daily 811,000, Sunday 1,167,000). The first, a tabloid, is the offspring of the second. Both are published by Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, 47, and Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson, 49. Col. McCormick devotes most of his time to the Tribune, while Capt. Patterson's chief interest is the Daily News...
They are cousins, grandchildren of famed Joseph Medill who put the Tribune on the path to lustiness. They made sandpies together as children. They went to Yale. But before young Patterson was graduated, he rushed off to China in 1900 as war correspondent. Two years later, he was married and became a reporter on the Tribune. As he rose from one desk to another, he wrote four trivial novels, the most successful of which was A Little Brother of the Rich, and one good play, The Fourth Estate. He said he was writing to please himself. When the War started...
When her bathroom scales read exactly 103 pounds, Elizabeth B. Patterson, Smith College student at Northampton, Mass., decided the cheapest way to get home to Santa Barbara, Calif., was to ship herself by air mail. Officials paid tribute to her wit, ingenuity, nerve, but turned down her offer of $300 and reminded her the charge per passenger for such a trip...
...them were soaked. The quadrangle was kaleidoscopic with brilliant lanterns and gay banners, and all students who had rooms on the quadrangle were ordered to light their lights at dark. The hits of the evening were a rendition of "Daddy Longlegs," a Hawaiian trio composed of J. A. Patterson '19, B. A. Jenkins '19, and H. H. Pell '19, and the "Anvil Chorus" of the Freshman Glee Club. Smith Halls won the interdormitory singing laurels...
There is as much truth in these figures as there is in Mary Baker Patterson Eddy's statement in the year 1883 that "A million people acknowledge and attest the blessings of this mental system of treating diseases." According to the census of 1910 there were 85,717 Christian Scientists in the United States, but, as half of the members of the Boston (Mother) Church were counted also as members of their local churches the actual total was not more than 65,000. Likewise, the present alleged total should be revised down to about...