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...Alicia Patterson, 47, editor and publisher of Long Island's tabloid Newsday (circ. 209,677), the fastest-growing and the most profitable big daily paper started in the U.S. in the last 20 years. A child of the famed Patterson-McCormick publishing dynasty, she is, nevertheless, cut from different cloth than her late, copper-haired, copper-tongued aunt, Cissy Patterson, who, as boss of the Washington Times-Herald, once confessed: "The trouble with me is that I am a vindictive old shanty-Irish bitch...
...Journalism. In creating her own highly successful Newsday, Alicia Patterson has also created a new form of U.S. journalism. It is as perfectly in step with the new trend in American life-the flight to the suburbs-as tabloids were to the jazz-happy '20s. When she launched Newsday on alligator-shaped Long Island in 1940, Publisher Patterson set out to violate every canon of sedate, well-mannered and deadly dull suburban journalism. Instead of loading her paper with name-dropping personal columns, handouts, accounts of tea parties and bake sales and local news that would offend...
...married another man of her father's choice, popular Joseph W. Brooks, flyer, All-America football player (Colgate, 1909-11) and a captain in World War I's famed Rainbow Division. The marriage lasted only eight years, possibly, friends say, because even in its happiest days Alicia was still closer to her father than to her husband. Wherever he went-to visit Britain's Lord Beaverbrook, to roam New York's subways or to inspect the drought areas of the Southwest-she went along. Childless, and with little to occupy her but New York...
Britain's butterfly-light (100 Ibs.) Ballerina Alicia Marlcova, who was recently barred from dancing in Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall because "she might damage the delicate machinery under the stage," arrived in Liverpool and pirouetted on more solid boards. Scene of her performance: Liverpool's boxing stadium...
...daughter of the late Joseph Medill Patterson, Alicia Patterson revered the journalistic talent that made his New York Daily News (circ. 2,109,601) the biggest U.S. paper. But she did not always agree with him about newspapering. Although her father warned her that Long Island would never "take to" a tabloid daily, she went ahead anyway and started Newsday, made it a spectacular success. This week Alicia Patterson, 47, won a journalistic award that has always escaped the Daily News. The Pulitzer Prize board gave Newsday its top prize for the most ""disinterested and meritorious public service rendered...