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Just Begun. Though the verdict will be appealed, it was a considerable blow to the Times (which buried the story on page 67). Still pending are three more libel suits resulting from the same ad, including one by Alabama Governor John M. Patterson, asking $1,000,000. The Sullivan judgment strongly implied that the Times's trouble has only begun...
...Sullivan case was trouble that the Times might have avoided. When the ad was submitted to the paper last spring, no one apparently bothered to check it carefully for fact. Not until Governor Patterson demanded and got a public apology from the paper in May did the Times discover that the ad contained at least one error in fact together with some dangerous implications...
...over the same period in 1959, lifted per-share earnings for the nine months to $6.51 v. $5.57 last year. Aided by 70% load factors on its new jets, which now carry 56% of United's passengers, United Air Lines made a steep climb; President William A. ("Pat") Patterson announced record third-quarter earnings of $1.97 per share, up from $1.74 a year ago. Ford, riding the compact crest, announced an extra quarterly dividend...
Philadelphia "lawyers are a breed apart, but even among Philadelphia lawyers "Chippy" Patterson was known as the damnedest fellow who ever came down Broad Street. For more than a quarter century (1907-33), he was notorious as the evil but lovable genius of the city's criminal courts, an attorney for the disreputable who passionately offered his services (generally free) as a devil's advocate for all forms of socially unacceptable behavior-and the more desperate the case, the better Chippy liked...
...once powerful physique (6 ft. 2 in., 190 Ibs.) was giving way. Alarmed by the increasing frequency of his alcoholic blackouts, he signed himself into a sanatorium and took the cure. He never had another drink in his life. At 32, ten years after passing his bar exams, Chippy Patterson at last felt ready to practice...