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...mistake, and he should have known. The late Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, the moody genius who had made his raucous New York Daily News the biggest U.S. newspaper, said that the suburbs of New York City wouldn't go for a tabloid "home paper." But daughter Alicia Patterson Guggenheim had the stubborn streak of all the Medill clan. Eight years ago, in a drafty garage at Hempstead, L.I., she started the tabloid Newsday, to prove her father wrong...
...Alicia had been forced to do it without benefit of the habit-forming comic strips that helped popularize the Daily News. But she had another asset: her newspaper know-how learned at her father's knee...
...married for the third time, brown-haired Alicia was a competent pilot, a Daily News book reviewer, and childless. She was also bored; she wanted a paper of her own, not to make money (she still draws no salary) but as an outlet for her restless energy. She talked her husband, Harry Frank Guggenheim, of the wealthy copper and nitrate family, into putting up the cash. It cost him, eventually, $750,000. Newsday, out of the red for two years, is now paying him back...
...awful green," Alicia reflects. "And it was a 100-to-1 shot." The newspaper she created is no carbon copy of the Daily News. Its front page is loud, but inside pages are made up like a magazine, with every item dummied to the last line of type. She hates the tabloid habit of marooning bits of news among seas of ads. Newsday's ads don't get in the way of full columns of Long Island news, and the advertisers have learned to like...
Family Arguments. "We are not part of the McCormick-Patterson axis," says Alicia shortly. "We're really independent. We can attack anybody we want, because we don't want anything from anybody." In 1940, when Alicia was for F.D.R. and her husband for Wendell Willkie, they argued it out on the editorial page. Now there is no argument; both are for Dewey. She also broke with her father, editorially, on his isolationism. Newsday looks with favor on ECA, and, like its commuting readers, with impatience on the Long Island railroad...