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...News, in the words of its late great founder, Captain Joe Patterson, "was built on legs." But it was more than legs that made it the biggest (peak circ. 2,402,346) and one of the most profitable papers in the U.S. Captain Patterson also had an unerring eye for the important, interesting news story to sandwich in between the tales of sensation, told them all in a crisp, flip way under such headlines as: 3,000 BOOLA BOO BROWDER AT YALE...
...Patterson (by Charles Sebree and Greer Johnson) chronicles the tangled real life and fragrant dream life of adolescence. There is good reason for Teddy Hicks's flights from reality: a 15-year-old Negro girl whose father deserted her mother (well played by Ruth Attaway), Teddy lives in ramshackle poverty. Mischievous, sensitive, sharp-tongued, she yearns to be "a rich white woman" like her mother's employer, Mrs. Patterson. But mingled with her gaudy fantasies of tea parties in the Patterson set are episodes involving raffish Chicago folk and a certain "Mr. D." from Hell...
With strikingly individual Eartha Kitt-risen from blues-singing to stardom-playing Teddy in a darting, prickling style, Mrs. Patterson has more in its favor than a sympathetic theme and a sharp approach. Yet the play as a whole is curiously flat and eventually tedious. The fault springs from nothing genteel or unhumorous in treatment: the authors squarely face Teddy's conflicts long before she does. Nor need the play's want of real movement, its mere alternations between fact and fantasy, prove fatal. But lacking outward progression, Mrs. Patterson needs real leverage of words, real voltage...
Late that night Hodges felt better. He learned that the meteorite was being studied at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, Ohio. A colonel at Wright-Patterson assured him by telephone that it would eventually be returned to the man whose wife it had nicked...
Roses in the Deserts. Able New York Industrialist Morehead Patterson, appointed by President Eisenhower to press negotiations with the other "have" nations, promised to "move fast." But the U.S. was not going to wait for creation of the agency itself. To get Eisenhower's program started in spirit and fact, the U.S. offered a proposition of its own. It was ready, said Lodge, to conclude bilateral agreements with other nations to help them build and operate research reactors; the U.S. would furnish technical advice and help, and supply fissionable materials. In addition, the U.S. would throw open a large...