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His ýofficlal blograp1Wy records tmat he is a Mason, member of the Chicago Athletic asso88- ciation, Chicago Commonwealth club; Tavern ceb nd Exmhoor. Country >club. His favorite recreations are. golf, horseback rldlng, fi0blngo and readlng. ThMýe bjography also supplies.'the Wnormnation that Mr. Patterson w8s Marid in, Berkeley' Calif., on Jupe 1. 1924, to Vera Witt. They, bave, two children, Patricia Ann, and William mien, Jr. Igteady Advauce S0 much for the personalý side.' On the business side the Patterson « career has been as smooth as theý mid-air performance of oneé9of the United Mainliners.* It lu just the record of one promotion after r anothé wtb1t Union1 it long cugn one aepartment even through a mer- Wells Fargo Bank is t company, becom- t an assistant, ý one r.all lrille ..y.. lmv bf gls. u ordinate theý operation of four transport subsidiaries of the United Alrcraft and Transport corporation. Presently he was mnade president of these four subsidiaries. Taking off from this eminent po- sition, lie soared still farther to business heights by election to the presidency of the consolidated com- for 1 had only street, carrying d Air Lines tag. at the grey suit that United ues to get armny and navy pilots In earlY llYing therle were beacons every l'1 wlth three years of traininag behirid them, one miles apart to guide airpiane pilots. Now they year of groundwork, one year of flying, anid so fly on 25-mile-wide channels according to radio on. Then theyr are given six weeks testing to. stations operating at, 150-mile'intervals. see if they meet United's requirements. If they Anopther item of knowledge new to me was, to do, they are i lime for a captaincy at the enmd:,f /hear that the re are_ traffie lanes in the sky. two years. In the meantimne they are designate< -Shir>s keep. to an 'altitude of 7,00 toý 9,000 feet when eastboundand.8,000 to 10,000' feet when westbound, or at other odd -and, even' thousands of feet., :Each flies to the right of the higi' way. In the literature the, publicity_ department gave me 1 came across this same information with addi-* tional distance details; "Any two ships wRI be at ieast'three to four. miles'apart sideways, one quarter of a mile apart up and down, and 40 miles apart front and ..c... Ships going in the same directio n are held. 15 minutes apart and at different altitudes by the traffc, Chicago "Smog" What the Interstat-e Commerce commission is to business, the Civil Aeroriautics authority is to trans- port flying, Mr. Patterson dis- closed. As for fog, Mr. Patterson laugh- ed that off. On the day I talked to Il m there was the usual Chicago "ýsmog" over everything. He said it was a good fiying day. "Above the fog the sky is blue and fiying It was with great'pride that he showed me, the special safety award given United Air Lines re-. cently by the National Safety Coun-'. cil for work in personnel and equip- ment problems advocating safety in air transport. Probably every-: one has heard of United's labora- tory where extensive research is constantly carried on. One of the problems under attack is the de- over rai centage at ü. time, ian car! The, sketches wýhich Mr. showed me (Continued on page 31),