{"id":20599,"date":"2021-10-28T11:39:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20599"},"modified":"2021-10-28T11:39:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:39:17","slug":"20th-century-vox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/20th-century-vox\/","title":{"rendered":"20th Century Vox"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e6e6e6&amp;d=nov21_fin_web&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=58&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One of \u201cMurrow\u2019s boys,\u201d Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, had eyes and ears for the extraordinary.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">BY COLIN W. SARGENT<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The first Maine-connected woman to earn a pilot\u2019s license in the U. S. was <strong>Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson<\/strong> (1905-2020). But flying an Immelmann or shooting a dead-stick landing were the least of her accomplishments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">York residents remember \u201c<strong>Marvin<\/strong>\u201d as the lofty owner of <strong>River House<\/strong>, the biggest mansion on the York River. Oh,<em> that<\/em> lady! The one with better family connections than an Auchincloss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She was pretty good with a camera too. Dismissed as a rich kid, she became a world-class news and art photographer who caught the 20th century with her high-speed shutter\u2013sometimes when it wasn\u2019t looking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Society\u2019s Child<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cTraveling to Europe in 1939 on photojournalism assignments, Breckinridge was in Switzerland when the Nazis invaded Poland, starting World War II,\u201d According to the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. \u201cShe traveled to London to photograph the evacuation of English children, one of only four American photographers in England for the first months of the war. In November, Edward R. Murrow invited Breckinridge to join him in a CBS radio broadcast about the changes the war had brought to English villages, and then others. At his suggestion she took on a sonorous tone while at the mike, and he hired her as the first female news broadcaster for the CBS World News Roundup to report from Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20607\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20th-century-vox-fb-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"20th century vox-fb\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20th-century-vox-fb-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20th-century-vox-fb-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20th-century-vox-fb-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20th-century-vox-fb-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20th-century-vox-fb-620x326.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20th-century-vox-fb.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of \u201cMurrow\u2019s boys,\u201d Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, had eyes and ears for the extraordinary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20655,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20599\/revisions\/20655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}