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...sudden and unexpected death of Newsday's hard-driving Editor Alicia Patterson in 1963 left her husband, Captain Harry F. Guggenheim, with a tough problem: Who could be brought in to run the suburban afternoon daily he had founded for his wife? To almost everyone's surprise, the job went to the first person who expressed an interest: Captain Harry himself...
...Republican of long standing, the Captain insisted on running his own editorial-page column supporting Richard Nixon for President on the same day that his wife came out editorially for Jack Kennedy. But once he became editor, Guggenheim did not noticeably alter the paper's rather liberal Democratic outlook. He closely supervises the editorial page and writes many editorials himself-and he does not hesitate to criticize a Republican one day, a Democrat the next. Last week Newsday came out for Republican Nelson Rockefeller for New York Governor; a few weeks back, it endorsed Democrat Arthur Levitt for Comptroller...
...paper's columnists, whom Guggenheim has assembled, also embrace a variety of political views. James Kilpatrick is an engaging conservative. On the liberal side are Atlanta Constitution Publisher Ralph McGill and Clayton Fritchey, the former delegate...
Coming Competition. In the years before Newsday, the Captain always showed a newsman's keen interest in a wide range of activities. He spent a few youthful years in South America learning the mining business, the source of the Guggenheim family's great wealth. Then he became fascinated with flying, served as a naval aviator in both World Wars. In 1929 he took a plunge into diplomacy by becoming Ambassador to Cuba, spent much of his time prevailing on Dictator Machado y Morales not to murder too many of his political opponents. He has married three times, bred...
...many surprises tucked behind the granite-sheathed fagade of Manhattan's new Whitney Museum of American Art. Even in a time that has seen museum design change from the Roman palazzos favored by turn-of-the-century architects to the spiraling extravaganza of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim, and Mies van der Rohe's austere glass cube for Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, the $6,000,000 Whitney, designed by Marcel Breuer and Hamilton Smith, was the event and talk of the evening...