Secretary of War, 1945–47

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There was an assay office where the harness shop had been, and a new general store across from the one Eli Patterson had owned.

Even the rematch with Spinks was bogged down in the arcane politics of big-money boxing -- and Pat Patterson, like all the others who had geared their lives to the fortunes of Muhammad Ali, understood that the rematch would have to be soon.

I certainly couldn't feel any improvement in my breathing, a feeling that was borne out when Patterson, noticeably weaker this time, crawled back and croaked out the bad news that he now had a dozen unconscious men on his hands.

Patterson, had a farm in Iowa, six miles out from Cedar Falls, and he cares little for society.

He wanted Scott Joplin, Louis Chauvin, James Scott, Sam Patterson, Otis Saunders, Artie Mathews, Eubie Blake, Joe Jordan.

Monique Patterson, my editor extraordinaire, with her dream team at St.

Vachel Patterson jerked his car to a halt and slammed on the emergency brake.

At 23:49, we received a SITREP from Admiral Patterson NE of Okinawa indicating that the Task Force is under attack, that several vessels were lost, and that he was taking evasive action.

Patterson, MC, USNR, wearing foul-weather gear and an inflated life jacket, was sitting in a bosun's chair.

Patterson had nearly exploded when he saw the bill for those gloves, but Lady Linford had told him that French kid was essential for a woman in Sarah's position.

John Groggins, the Methodist minister, was a hypocritical old poop, and Patterson, from the Church of the Latter-day Saints and Followers of the Cross, was as crazy as a bear stuck in a honey tree.

Hosiah would even admit, quietly, to himself, that Patterson was his superior as a scholar of the Holy Word, due to his somewhat lengthier formal education, but of the two, Hosiah Jackson was marginally the better speaker, and so their relative talents played well off each other.

Patterson went straight to the liquor cabinet and extracted a bottle of Scotch.

Patterson had learned to deal with The Champ's moods but he also knew that in any crowd around The Greatest there would be at least a few who felt the same way about Ali as they had about Malcolm X or Martin Luther King.

Director Caldwell Patterson of the Galactic Library sat at the desk in his office deep in the planet, a sheet of metallic paper in his hands.