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Last week, while Colonel McCormick's Senator (C. Wayland Brooks) orated in defense of the Tribune, Captain Patterson got a blasting from a freshman Representative from Pennsylvania...
...handful of Senators and Congressmen became purple last week attacking and defending the McCormick-Patterson publishing family. At hubbub's end the man who had taken the hardest lumps was not widely hated Colonel Robert McCormick, of the Chicago Tribune, but the most engaging member of the family: Captain Joe Patterson of the New York Daily News...
...Patterson is a different sort of journalistic bird from, Bertie McCormick. Unlike the Tribune, the tabloid News plays the news straight-except for queer capers in some "feature" stories. Having long ago graduated from reliance on a cheesecake-and-scandal diet, it now commands respect from its contemporaries for its enterprise and alertness. Equally respected is Captain Patterson, who distinguished himself in combat in World War I, has espoused many a liberal cause. But his pre-Pearl Harbor isolationism and editorial changes of pace on the conduct of the war have prompted many to tar him with the same brush...
...working with the Axis warlords to . . . hamper our country's war effort." Taking his pretty wife (a onetime secretary of Mrs. Gifford Pinchot) to Washington as his secretary, Elmer Holland started right in on a seven-days-a week study of Captain Joe's News and Cissie Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. Last fortnight, in his maiden speech, he let fly: Captain Joe and Cissie, he charged, were "America's No. 1 and No. 2 exponents of the Nazi propaganda line . . . doing their best to bring about a Fascist victory, hoping that in that victory they...
...factories will get credit aplenty. However proud he is, he keeps it to himself. This week, in spite of a rib broken in a fall from a horse, he shuttled between the Boeing offices and his swanky $250,000 home 15 miles outside Seattle. For the production record Robert Patterson praised so highly Johnson gave most of the credit to his workers. Said he: "They like to see things rolling...