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...friends of Jim Patton will thank you for your recognition, even if unenthusiastic, of the N.F.U. president. I am sure your Ivy League, Rockefeller Plaza editors did not mean the snide subtitles and innuendoes of resentment against the wealth and success of the N.F.U. and the man who has had the vision and integrity to fight for them, and whose only sin is that he has been steadfast to democratic ideals...
Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich; Author Lewis Mumford; the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor emeritus of Manhattan's Riverside Church; Pollster Elmo Roper; National Farmers Union Boss James G. Patton (who runs N.C.S.N.P. material free in N.F.U. publications); Sociologist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman; Librettist Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein II; and the committee's scientific anchor man, Caltech's busy chemist and busy politician, Dr. Linus Carl Pauling, longtime supporter of Communist-line fronts,* whose ideology was never noticeably shaken by the suppression inside the Soviet Union for years of his own Nobel Prizewinning discovery about the resonance...
Gunther did not include in the book his own footnote to history. When the U.S.'s invasion commander, Major General George Patton, refused to let Eisenhower ashore early, it was Gunther who spotted a quiet Sicilian cove from their destroyer. He told Ike: "General, I can write a story that will make every newspaper in the world tomorrow. The first paragraph will be this: 'The commander in chief of the Allied Forces of Liberation set foot on the soil of occupied Europe for the first time today.'" Says Gunther: "Ike gave me a long, dirty look...
...Blessed Are the Rich. Although the National Farmers Union is the champion of the "poor" and the "small" farmer, the man who built the N.F.U. is by no means embarrassed by its wealth. Says N.F.U. President Patton: "I do not think it is blessed to be poor, at least not in the U.S. I've been poor, and I didn't see anything blessed about...
Kansas-born Patton is the son of an engineer who helped found a short-lived cooperative farm at Nucla, Colo. Jim worked on farms, took odd jobs to earn extra money, paid his way through Western State College of Colorado, wound up with a Depression-days job selling typewriters. "Jim was a terrific salesman," says a longtime acquaintance. "He has always had a tendency for main-chancing...