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...Manhattan, Commissioner of Correction Richard C. Patterson Jr. while inspecting a jail, was asked by the keeper what charge had brought him in. "Prowling," answered Commissioner Patterson. ''Get in there," said the keeper, locked Commissioner Patterson in a cell where he stayed for half an hour...
...next few hours were chaos for managing editors. Hearst executives were frantic; offered fat sums (reputedly $5.000) for a print. They wired "The Chief" in California, even besought Grandfather Dwight Morrow to intercede for them. More furious, if possible, was Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of the Daily News. Heatedly but futilely he demanded that A. P. General Manager Kent Cooper obey the A. P. rules, supply the News with a picture...
Friends of Publisher Patterson of the News know him for a good sportsman, a fair fighter. They wondered what his mental processes were when, three days after the baby-picture episode, the Daily News performed what looked like as spiteful a piece of journalism as has lately been performed...
Quietly last winter was formed a new agency for scholarship called the Facsimile Text Society. Last week it received its first large publicity impetus when the President of the U. S. penned a letter of congratulation and thanks for presentation copies to its founder-executive officer Frank A. Patterson, Professor of English at Columbia University...
...Richard Teller Crane Jr. is present president of the company. Of him as of his father it is said that he would rather visit a Crane Co. shop than attend a theatre. He never flies although his wife's brother-in-law is famed flying Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson. In his huge Lake Shore Drive home where last week he entertained Crane Co. employes there are no modern Crane Co. bathrooms. Richard Jr. has but one son Cornelius, recently elected a director of the company. He has never, however, worked therein, prefers to make scientific expeditions in the South...