[2] Ted Patrick's early career included a stint as a semi-professional baseball player and as a sports reporter for the Rutherford Republican.
[2] In the 1930s, he wrote volunteer copy for World Peaceways, an anti-war organization that used modern advertising techniques (or propaganda) to counteract "the artificial glories of war.
[2] Patrick turned the flagging title into a beautiful full-color over-sized magazine that focused on travel essays by famous writers, supported by outstanding art direction.
The New York Times called out "good food and drinks, travel, watching baseball and playing tennis, breeding champion Airedale terriers, writing about these matters and living life to the full occupied Mr. Patrick over the years.
Food can play a potent part in making life dull or exciting...."[2] "Ted was the ideal choice as editor of Holiday," wrote Michael Callahan in Vanity Fair.
"[7] A fellow magazine executive stated of Patrick's appointment, "This man has the respect of the industry for the kind of job he's done at Holiday.
We applaud your indifference to the pressures of advertisers and the heckling of publishers...Nobody else could have created a magazine which is equally distinguished for its graphics and writing.
Cartier-Bresson and Steinbeck, Arnold Newman and William Golding, Slim Aarons and Seán Ó Faoláin, John Lewis Stage and Laurens van der Post.
[1] Patrick was a member of Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, an exclusive club for wine enthusiasts founded in 1934.