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...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...
...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 Copper Fortune Heir Harry Guggenheim over Captain Joe's strenuous objections...
James Johnson Sweeney has been director of Houston's Museum of Fine Arts for two years, five months and four days. That is perhaps two years longer than some of his former colleagues in Manhattan-recalling how he stomped out of his job at the Guggenheim Museum-would have predicted. Expectably, he has stirred things up, but aside from having to display some Remington cowboy art that he loathes...
...Ellsworth's undefeated Candy Spots. Now, as the band played Maryland, My Maryland, eight thoroughbreds paraded to the post for the $180,000 Preakness at Pimlico. Candy Spots again was the favorite (at 3-2), and Shoemaker struggled with strategy. Should he try to match strides with Harry Guggenheim's pace-making Never Bend, the Derby runner-up? Or should he hang back until the stretch, then try to outduel John Galbreath's late-charging Chateaugay, the Derby winner? Said Willie: "I decided not to worry about Never Bend. Chateaugay was the horse I had to beat...
...every man knows it: Elizabeth Arden. In 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