Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Professor Orlando Patterson, a member of the executive committee of the Afro Department, said last night, "I think that it's outrageous. It's happened before. My own position, and I've always been clear about this, is that if the department is going to sponsor this kind of thing, and use the University's facilities, then no white person should be excluded...
...late teens was serving a five-year sentence for a restaurant holdup when a prison chaplain tried to channel his ferocious aggressions into boxing. Under the guidance of the mob, he won all but one of his first 34 matches and in 1962 took the heavyweight title from Floyd Patterson. "The Big Bear" lost to brash young Cassius Clay in 1964 when he failed to answer the seventh-round bell and a year later lost to Clay again in a 102-second title bout in which he was felled by a "phantom" righthand punch that many ringside observers thought...
Keck had also fallen out of favor with the man who groomed him for his job: William A. Patterson. United's founder. Like many airline pioneers, "Pat" Patterson, though retired, is a busy and influential sidelines coach. He now criticizes Keck for being a loner who failed to take the board into his confidence. "Still," Patterson concedes, "these are difficult times to run anything...
...Chicago's O'Hare Field, Keck was told that he was out. The news was broken by the man who presided over the meeting, Thomas Gleed, who had often tangled with Keck. Gleed, a Seattle financier who made his money in lumber, is a close friend of Patterson and a keen fan of his fellow townsman, "Eddie" Carlson...
Colburn, who captained both the cross country and track teams last year while a senior here, will marry Betsy Patterson, a Wellesley graduate, this afternoon in Hampton...