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...Along with three other papers whose editorial policy suits the Colonel's liver better: Hearst's Detroit Times and Oakland Post-Enquirer; Cousin Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") Patterson's Washington Times-Herald...
Their empty desks pose a problem for War Secretary Patterson, who is also chafing, anxious to go (so is Navy Secretary Forrestal). To find successors, the civilian departments have to go out in the world and beg. There are few men of the caliber of Lovett and McCloy tempted by an assistant secretary's salary ($10,000); few feel any obligation, to serve in the War Department in peacetime...
...Seek. This was too much for tight-lipped Navy Secretary Forrestal, who immediately wrote War Secretary Patterson. Doolittle's civilian boss...
...Washington Times-Heraid's vitriolic, red-haired Publisher Cissie Patterson, 61, who publishes the biggest but not the best paper in the capital, has had insanity on her mind recently. Last week she spread her thoughts across eight columns, under the heading CRAZY-CRAZY LIKE FOXES. They added up to some of the most vicious personal slander since the days when all journalism was yellow...
...minute later, Mrs. Patterson was talking about Winchell, Pearson "and other Quislings [who] . . .manage to get paid big money for their treachery." Their crime, as Cissie saw it: "This filthy work of plotting, planning, sneaking, lying, spying, cheating, stealing, smearing, in the mere HOPE of one day overthrowing our American form of government." Cissie's final medical diagnosis: the "liberals" were "crazy all right, but . . . crazy like foxes" and sometimes there was "a fine method in their madness...