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William Allan Patterson, president. United Air Lines...
Having been fooled once, many of them take refuge in the safety of "cautious optimism"-but the accent is on optimism. William Allan Patterson. 63, the breezy former banker who heads United Air Lines, feels "a great weight lifting from my shoulders" as a result of the economy's pickup. Metropolitan Life Insurance President Gilbert Fitzhugh, 53, who puts in an 80-hour week investing the insurance savings of 44 million Americans and Canadians, thinks that nowadays "individual businessmen are more optimistic than the economists." John F. Gordon, 63, an Annapolis-trained engineer who climbed the corporate stairs...
...Cooper could not resist the temptation to trade his college R.O.T.C. commission for an Air Force lieutenant's bar in 1949. He flew F-84s and F-86s with a fighter-bomber group in Munich for four years, earned an aeronautical engineering degree at Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, qualified for the rugged test-pilot duty at the pioneering Edwards Air Force Base in California-home of the world's highest, fastest jet, the X-15. A few years before his selection as an astronaut, Cooper took a friendly flight with another future Mercury spaceman...
...just a form of sophisticated begging. We are not a violent movement, but we do not believe in getting our heads kicked in, either. Black people have been dying for nothing all these years-now it's time for them to die for something." Jackie Robinson and Floyd Patterson were in town for a day. They made a couple of angry speeches, then flew North again without getting too deeply embroiled in the Birmingham bitterness. Said Robinson on departing: "I'm a firm believer in letting the pros...
...know what I like. I enormously like Edward Hopper. A novelist, wonderful, obsessed with America, John Dos Passos. His faith and wisdom sustained the public philosophy: Rabbi Louis Finkelstein. True journalist daughter of a great journalist whose husband, Harry Guggenheim, also made the cover on his own, Alicia Patterson. A man who knows what he believes and does well