Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor Joseph Medill Patterson a new comic of his own called "Little Orphan Otto." Editor Patterson, an enthusiastic expert on comics, changed Otto to Annie, started her on her way in the Tribune in August 1925. Annie was a curly-haired hoyden about 12 years old, incredibly wise, philosophical, capable, generous. In due time Cartoonist Gray lifted her from squalor by letting her be adopted by a fabulously rich, middle-aged character named Daddy Warbucks. Daddy had fleets of yachts and airplanes, platoons of liveried footmen around his palatial home, wore a dinner jacket and gleaming diamond shirt stud...
...newsworthy last week was the fact that Cartoonist Gray and his editors were receiving countless letters from excited readers throughout the land, asking if the strip was supposed to be a sympathetic portrayal of the case of Samuel Insull. Two facts made such a notion absurd: 1) neither Editor Patterson nor The Tribune is an Insull-lover; 2) Cartoonist Gray draws his strips ten weeks in advance, had Annie's Daddy on trial before Samuel Insull was even arrested...
...Lines Transport Corp., a $10,743,000 company to acquire all outstanding stock of Boeing Air Transport, Pacific Air Transport, Varney Air Lines, United Airports Co. of California, United Air Lines and at least 99% of National Air Transport. This new transport company will be headed by William Allen Patterson, onetime San Francisco banker who became president of United Air Lines last August. United Aircraft Corp., a $15,692,000 company to acquire all outstanding stock of Chance Vought Corp., Hamilton Standard Propeller Co., Northrop Aircraft Corp., Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co., United Aircraft Exports Inc., The United Airports of Connecticut...
Walter Howey was one of 76 birthday party guests at San Simeon. He had flown out from Manhattan with Thomas . White, general manager of the Hearst publications, Richard E. Berlin, chief of Hearst magazines, William A. Curley managing editor of the New York Evening Journal. Mrs. Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson arrived from Washington. Mrs. Winifred Black ("Annie Laurie") went down from San Francisco. Hollywood was represented by a huge delegation including...
...only a fat comic section and well-read editorials distinguish the Sunday News. Its book reviews are written by Editor Patterson's attractive, air-minded daughter Alicia who, like her father, is honestly anxious not to be a drone...