Word: alicia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...additional to contribute: a stamp of personality that enlivened four generations of American journalism. In Chicago it was the incomparable Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, in Washington the acid Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, in New York the swashbuckling Captain Joseph Medill Patterson. More recently, a raven-haired bundle of energy named Alicia Patterson Guggenheim bore the family banner with her Long Island tabloid, Newsday. Last week at the age of 56, Alicia Patterson died, and for the first time in 143 years no member of the dynasty ran a newspaper...
...Keep Alicia Moving." She was Captain Joe's daughter, the child he raised like a son. From the age of four, when he sent her to Berlin to learn German, Alicia was a product of his restless ways. Full of her father's high spirits, she was troublesome enough to be bounced out of two of the world's fanciest finishing schools before managing to get through Foxcroft. She roamed Europe with her mother and sister, but her mother finally despaired of trying to keep her in tow. When Mother cabled Joe asking him to talk...
...Alicia really preferred her father's flamboyant company, learned to fly airplanes with him, stood fascinated at his side as he built the country's biggest paper, New York City's blunt and breezy Daily News. She even put in stints at reporting for Daddy's paper. But Captain Joe winced at her work, and after involving the paper in a libel suit, she finally quit. Turning to other adventure she hunted in Asia, fly-fished in Norway, piloted her own plane around Europe. Twice divorced from husbands of her father's choice, Alicia married...
...Newsday put it in Alicia's obit last week, relations between father and son-in-law were "correct but never cordial." Father and daughter grew distant.* Sin In the Choir Loft. Alicia decided she wanted her own newspaper. Her husband agreed ("Everybody ought to have a job"), wisely judging that this would be an outlet for her enormous energies, and put up $70,000 to get the paper started. Her idea was to publish a suburban daily for Long Island, where she and Guggenheim lived in a 30-room Norman mansion in fashionable Sands Point. What...
...painting, I know what I like. I enormously like Edward Hopper. A novelist, wonderful, obsessed with America, John Dos Passos. His faith and wisdom sustained the public philosophy: Rabbi Louis Finkelstein. True journalist daughter of a great journalist whose husband, Harry Guggenheim, also made the cover on his own, Alicia Patterson. A man who knows what he believes and does well