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...went into naval aviation and rose to the rank of captain. By then he had already founded Newsday with an investment of $50,000 in 1940; the paper grew into a vast success in no small part because of the brilliant direction provided by his wife Alicia Patterson, who was its editor and publisher until her death in 1963. Guggenheim carried on for a while alone, then with former L.B.J. Aide Bill Moyers as publisher, until last May, when he sold his 51% interest in Newsday to the Times Mirror Co., publisher of the Los Angeles Times...
...must agree with Professors Kilson, Nwafor, Patterson, and others that all publicly announced meetings or lectures sponsored by any department in the University should not exclude any portion of the University community. The incident concerning the lecture given by Mrs. DuBois sponsored by the Afro-American Studies Department which excluded whites was unfortunate. Perhaps lectures of this nature need not take place at Harvard but rather within the larger black community...
...wish to register my concurrence with professor Orlando Patterson's expression of outrage in today's CRIMSON (Jan 22nd) at attempts by extremist elements among Negro students in this University to exclude white students and faculty from public meetings. Indeed, this behavior, which cuts at the very roots of the University, is so intellectually vulgar and so morally reprehensible that it must be brought to a halt. here...
Professor Orlando Patterson, a member of the executive committee of the Afro Department, said last night, "I think that it's outrageous. It's happened before. My own position, and I've always been clear about this, is that if the department is going to sponsor this kind of thing, and use the University's facilities, then no white person should be excluded...
...late teens was serving a five-year sentence for a restaurant holdup when a prison chaplain tried to channel his ferocious aggressions into boxing. Under the guidance of the mob, he won all but one of his first 34 matches and in 1962 took the heavyweight title from Floyd Patterson. "The Big Bear" lost to brash young Cassius Clay in 1964 when he failed to answer the seventh-round bell and a year later lost to Clay again in a 102-second title bout in which he was felled by a "phantom" righthand punch that many ringside observers thought...