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...here to greet anybody," snapped New York City's official greeter. Public Events Commissioner Richard C. Patterson Jr., as he strode past a clutch of curious newsmen in the lobby of Manhattan's Barclay Hotel one morning last week. "I'm just here to see that the lady has sufficient police protection." The lady-South Viet Nam's Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu-coolly assured Patterson that her protection was just fine. Besides, she added, "God is in my corner...
...Brisbane, who was William Randolph Hearst's chief editorial lieutenant. "Nine," replied Walter Howey, who was to be the Mirror's new editor. He was nearly as good as his word. From seed, the Mirror bloomed in two weeks. It was a frank imitation of Captain Joseph Patterson's five-year-old Daily News, the U.S.'s first successful tabloid. But hardly had one copycat arisen when there was another: Bernarr Macfadden's Evening Graphic, a meretricious tabloid compounded of "composographs"-faked photographs, mostly of undraped women-and juicy crime...
Impatient with such lethargy, the new owner reached for a success similar to that of the late Alicia Patterson's Newsday (circ. 373,587), which caters to Long Island suburbanites. He brought in a task force of bright, energetic newsmen, increased the news staff to 50, and boosted salaries. From Minneapolis came Promotion Manager Robert Weed as publisher and Assistant City Editor Ed Goodpaster as managing editor. "Cowles couldn't be expected to run a schlock operation here," says Weed. "This had to look like something...
...hours a week in their offices, but not George E. Keck, 51, the new president of United Air Lines. "I work hard," says Keck, "but I also believe in relaxing when there's time to relax." There may be less time from now on. Though peppery Pat Patterson will still pilot United from his new post as chairman, broad-shouldered, cigar-chewing George Keck will keep his eye for detail on all opera tions, travel at least 100,000 miles a year. Trained in operations and maintenance, Keck believes in as much personal contact as possible with the line...
Jones, Terrell, Williams, Patterson--they are all competent heavy weights, and Terrell should prove to be the best of them. But, at the end of any survey of he heavyweight scene one comes to the simple conclusion that Liston's only real battle in the years ahead will be with the effects of age and easy living. Sonny claims to be 31, but even in the absence of a birth certificate this is obvious fiction...