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Died. Joseph Medill Patterson, 67, publisher of New York's whopping tabloid Daily News, cousin of Colonel "Bertie" McCormick (Chicago Tribune) and brother of "Cissie" Patterson (Washington Times-Herald); of a liver ailment; in Manhattan (see PRESS...
Cousin Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Tribune (and co-manager of the Medill Trust),* was certain to move in. And Sister Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson, shrill publisher of the Washington Times-Herald, would replace Brother Joe as a trustee. Neither has Joe's common touch...
...Bertie McCormick no longer had to send someone to the door to pick up the morning's copy of his Chicago Tribune, "World's Greatest Newspaper." It came right into the living room of his Cantigny Farm in suburban Wheaton, Ill., through a gadget that brought him the Tribune in facsimile (TIME, April 29). Trib executives had instructions to radio the condensed version there three times a week before the Colonel sat down to breakfast...
Married. Charles Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, 49, kinky-haired Republican Senator from Illinois, longtime political bedfellow of Chicago's Bertie McCormick; and Mary Thomas Peavey, 39, daughter of Idaho's late Senator John Thomas; both for the second time; in Washington...
Celebrities from all corners of the nation are gathering for the battle, with late arrivals including President Truman, Tommy Manville, Rose La Rose, Earl Wilson, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, Senator Theodore G. Bilbo, J. Barnuman Bailey, and Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Preparations to hold all the spectators are still proceeding at the Stadium; temporary cheering stands with built-in flags are going up through the night...