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...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...
...journalistic talent that made his New York Daily News (circ. 2,109,601) the biggest U.S. paper. But she did not always agree with him about newspapering. Although her father warned her that Long Island would never "take to" a tabloid daily, she went ahead anyway and started Newsday, made it a spectacular success. This week Alicia Patterson, 47, won a journalistic award that has always escaped the Daily News. The Pulitzer Prize board gave Newsday its top prize for the most ""disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by a U.S. newspaper" during...
...Newsday (circ. 190,151) won the prize for its campaign exposing corruption and graft at New York's trotting tracks (TIME, Oct. 19). Four years ago, Newsday Managing Editor Alan Hathway, an alumnus of the New York tabloid News, started hammering at the Roosevelt Raceway, about half a mile from Newsday's plant, charged that Long Island's Building Trades Boss (A.F.L.) William De Koning was shaking down builders and track employees for close to $1,000,000 a year. Governor Thomas E. Dewey appointed a special commission to clean up the raceways, and last month Labor...
...Need to Fear. When the murder at the Yonkers track got other Manhattan papers interested in the harness-racing scandals, Newsday was ready. It had already turned its evidence over to the New York City Anti-Crime Committee, which handed it out to other papers to use in digging up their own stories. The New York Journal-American discovered that Acting Lieutenant Governor Arthur Wicks, along with other prominent officials, had also visited Labor Racketeer Fay in Sing Sing (TIME, Oct. 12). As a result, Dewey asked Wicks to resign. Wicks offered to "let the Senate pass upon my fitness...
While every Manhattan paper raced for its own exclusive to keep ahead of official disclosures, Newsday patted itself on the back for its spadework: "Labor Czar Bill De Koning has been indicted . . . Scores of persons who have felt . . . De Koning's wrath have written this paper anonymously. They no longer need to fear...