Word: pattersons
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...other term appointees of the department exhibit impressive credentials, too. Dr. Ephraim Isaacs, Ph. D. '69, is a former director of the National Literacy Campaign in Ethiopia. Dr. Orlando Patterson is a distinguished scholar, novelist, and social critic, now teaching AAS 14 and AAS 30: African and West Indian Literature...
Maury's moods in print reflect the influence of the late Joseph Patterson, the News' irascible founder. Patterson hired Maury in 1926 out of Butte, Mont., where Maury had been mixing freelance writing with a law practice. Maury won a Pulitzer Prize for editorials in 1940. At the same time he was moonlighting, writing Collier's editorials that often took an opposite, liberal point of view. Maury's explanation: "An editorial writer is like a lawyer or a public relations man: his job is to make the best possible case for his client...
...other term appointees of the department exhibit impressive credentials, too. Dr. Ephraim Issac, Ph. D. '69, is a former director of the National Literacy Campaign in Ethiopia. Dr. Orlando Patterson is a distinguished scholar, novelist, and social critic, now teaching AAS 14 and AAS 30: African and West Indian Literature...
VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY Frederick D. Patterson, LL.D., chairman of the United Negro College Fund and forme president of Tuskegee Institute...
...sell at all? The answer: A conservative, Guggenheim was disappointed by the liberal drift the paper had taken under his hand-picked heir apparent, Publisher Bill Moyers. Ailing at 79, the Captain also wanted to ensure that the six heirs of his late wife would not gain control. Alicia Patterson was the force behind the paper for two decades following its founding in a converted garage in 1940 on $50,000. Despite her efforts to gain control of the paper in an increasingly hostile marriage, the Captain would never yield to her the all-important 2% of the stock. Newsday...