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Washington could hardly wait for the trial of Countess Felicia Gizycka's suit to break the will of her mother, Publisher Eleanor Patterson of the Washington Times-Herald (TIME, Sept. 27). It promised to rattle many a family skeleton. But one afternoon last week just twelve days before the trial date, attorneys for the Countess summoned newsmen. They were handed an announcement of an agreement by all parties to settle out of court...
...Criminal Mind. In St. Louis, after Chef Samuel Patterson had assured two gunmen that he had no money, they settled for two slabs of apple...
...Pearson's long feud with the late "Cissy" Patterson, he learned that you can't win an argument with mother-in-law (TIME, May 18, 1942 et seq.). Cissy and Pearson had continued to get along fine even after Drew and Cissy's daughter Felicia got a friendly divorce. ("He wanted me to be too domestic," says Felicia. "I'm not much for pressing pants." Grandfather Pearson still dotes on their daughter Ellen and her year-old son Drew.) Cissy and Pearson split over politics: Pearson & Allen became too New Dealish for Cissy's taste...
Bill Murphy is no part of the newspaper tradition that copyreaders are just broken-down reporters. A Yaleman ('17) and onetime Wall Street bond salesman, he left Manhattan to work on the News-owned Detroit Mirror. When Patterson torpedoed it without notice in 1932, Murphy went back to the News to stay...
...suitors, he took steps to keep "The Old Lady," as Arkansans call the state's biggest and most respected daily, in the family. For around $750,000, he bought the Gazette stock (25%) that was not already held by Heiskells. He also named ex-Army Major Hugh B. Patterson Jr., his capable, 33-year-old son-in-law, as his paper's publisher. (Son Carrick Heiskell, an Army pilot, was killed flying the Hump in World...