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...August day in 1918, Captain Robert Porter Patterson, 306th Infantry, U.S.A., led a patrol into the German lines in France, surprised and wiped out an enemy outpost, killed several men in a second one, and then, singlehanded, covered his patrol's retreat. That day won him the Distinguished Service Cross. Before his death at 60, in the Elizabeth air crash last week (see above), the nation was to pay him many another tribute. For Bob Patterson never stopped fighting...
Call to the Jungles. The son of a Glens Falls, N.Y. lawyer, Patterson was educated at Union College (Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard Law School, organized his own law firm in Manhattan in 1922. In 1930, President Hoover made him a district court judge; he presided with the stern sense of duty of his Yankee forebears. President Roosevelt promoted him to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in 1939. Prior to World War II Judge Patterson fought the unpopular fight for a military-conscription law, and personally enrolled in an officers' refresher course at Plattsburg, N.Y. There...
Answering Calls. Black-browed Bill Draper is one of that group of Wall Streeters-among them Forrestal, Stimson, Lovett, Patterson, McCloy and Har-riman-who, though usually Republican, have temporarily answered the call of Government whenever a problem needed a tough, practical administrator to straighten it out. Unlike some of them, Draper is no hereditary economic royalist. Born in New York City, the son of a dentist, he went to New York University (Class of '16), got his start in business at the National City Bank, later switched to Dillon, Read & Co., where his boss was Forrestal...
...Childhood of Christ," by Johann Christoph Bach, featured four superb soloists backed up by a fine orchestra-chorus combination. Conductor Alfred Patterson obviously had his musicians well trained; the attacks were accurate and confident, and balance between singers and orchestra came pretty close to perfection. The outstanding soloist was tenor Oscar Henry, whose strong but subdued voice sounded good, despite the sore throat he had to combat...
Alfred Nash Patterson, director of the Chorus Pro Musica, will lead the ensemble in several other numbers...