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Compared to Scripps-Howard's tabloid Daily News, to "Cissie" Patterson's raucous Times-Herald and even to Eugene Meyer's Post, the Evening Star seems to many readers as stodgy as the Congressional Record. It is second only to the Times-Herald in circulation (with a record 215,000) and among the five most adladen papers in the nation...
...Mancunians, the Guardian family is proud that theirs was the first British newspaper to be barred from Germany (in 1933). In the dark summer of 1940, the heads of the family knew that if Britain were invaded, their blacklisted paper would fall into Nazi hands. So they made Paul Patterson, president of the Baltimore Sun, a trustee and sent the deed to the property across the Atlantic for safekeeping. Patterson returned it last August, an occasion which seemed to the Guardian a proper time to redefine its goal: "It is simply an attempt to secure the fulfillment...
...airlines, which have had their fill of bad news lately, gulped a few more swallows last week. They came from United Air Lines President William Allan Patterson. Said he: "All airlines (with the possible exception of Eastern) will lose money in the last quarter...
...Fares. Patterson said that air travel is falling off* while operating costs are going up. United's load factor (percentage of seats filled) had dropped 4% in three weeks. Patterson was sure that it would drop even more sharply when winter weather disrupts airline schedules. And air lanes have become so crowded that United has decided to cancel flights this winter 200 miles ahead of destinations where more than ten planes are "stacked up" waiting to land. This, Patterson admitted, will result in the poorest flying record in years. At the same time, operating costs have risen so much...
...operation on the liver. A 17-gun salute was fired, the flag was hauled down to the accompaniment of ruffles and flourishes. Uncle Joe would have snorted at such solemn ceremonial. But just 24 hours before he died, he had got his dying wish: on orders of War Secretary Patterson, he received the Combat Infantryman Badge...