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...midst of a sleepless night in his Justice Department office in Washington, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, 36, hung up his telephone and said wearily: "It's like playing Russian roulette." And in Montgomery, the capital of Alabama and the birthplace of the Confederacy, Governor John Patterson, 39, wearing a pure white carnation in his lapel, complained bitterly: "I'm getting tired of being called up in the middle of the night and being ordered to do this and ordered to do that...
...that, they could in part thank Governor John Patterson. A militant segregationist who solicited Ku Klux Klan support in his election campaign, Patterson once said that integration would come to Alabama only "over my dead body." In his inaugural address Patterson declared: "I will oppose with every ounce of energy I possess and will use every power at my command to prevent any mixing of white and Negro races in the classrooms of this state." Said he as the Freedom Riders approached: "The people of Alabama are so enraged that I cannot guarantee protection for this bunch of rabble-rousers...
...publisher ever spent more off hours mingling with the hurrying crowd than Joe Patterson. He not only filled his paper with lively stuff-plenty of comics, features, serialized fiction, puzzle contests and the best picture spreads in town-but he knew just how to sell the "important but dull" story to the gum-chewers. News editorials generally read like street-corner arguments, a tribute in part to Patterson, who once rejected an editorial because "it reads too much as though an editorial writer had written it," and to Chief Editorial Writer Reuben Maury, who knew how to transfer the boss...
Stocks & Surprise. Patterson was an all-out isolationist before World War II, and his paper ran little foreign news until the start of the war. Today, says Executive Editor Richard Clarke, 64, "we find ourselves giving a hell of a lot of space to foreign affairs because that's what the public 'is interested in." Patterson's towering editorial rages have largely disappeared, and his quiddities, which persisted out of habit, now seem to be receding. (Although he supported Franklin Delano Roosevelt for three elections, the captain got so mad at F.D.R. just before Pearl Harbor that...
...says Clarke, "I think Mr. Patterson would like the looks of the News." Its rivals think it has lost a lot of its old zip, but it still holds the loyalty of an awful lot of straphangers, and still boasts twice the circulation of any other paper...