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...Chicago Tribune's Robert Rutherford ("Bert") McCormick called her "the ablest woman publisher this country has ever had." She won the Pulitzer Prize for stories that sent a racketeering labor leader to jail and helped to force a Republican national committeeman's resignation. She thinks the New York Times is the greatest paper in the world, but resents "trying to find a good murder buried on page...
...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...
...successful paper that is losing circulation is bound to be rumored up for sale. Colonel Robert R. McCormick's big, successful Chicago Tribune has lost almost 20% of its circulation since 1946 (latest figure: 877,636), and the inevitable rumors have been circulating. One had it that Publisher John Knight, whose string of papers stretches from Florida (Miami Herald) to McCormick's own Chicagoland (Daily News), was dickering to buy the Trib. Last week, in answer to a reader's question, the Trib flatly denied the rumors. Said an editorial...
Readers were understandably surprised since the Trib customarily brooks no "internationalist," "pro-Eisenhower" or "leftwing" nonsense in its pages. For 30 years, the paper has faithfully expressed the views of its eccentric publisher, Colonel Robert R. McCormick. It still runs no syndicated political columnists because there are none whose views would fit day to day with the views of the colonel. But last week, to prove that it meant what it said, the Trib ran a series of editorials from such sources as the Fair Dealing New York Post and Nashville Tennessean and even Britain's Manchester Guardian...
...ailing, the colonel was so busy with the Washington Times-Herald, until he sold it four months ago to the Washington Post, that he had less time for the Trib. But now he is back on the job again and his handsome, outspoken wife, Maryland McCormick, has accurately read the signs, as have top Trib executives. From staff and distaff side, the colonel has been gently urged to make changes in the paper. Says Maryland McCormick: "The odds seem to be against the extreme right wing. It's very sad, but true, and why not face...