Word: patterson
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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...
...practices the same brand of personal journalism that her irascible and admiring cousin Bert carries to an extreme, although she disagrees with him on almost every political issue. Most important of all, she has a touch of the journalistic genius of her late father, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, the nonconformist millionaire, who founded the New York Daily News, made it the biggest and one of the best-edited papers in the U.S., and became the father of tabloid journalism in America...
...Journalism. In creating her own highly successful Newsday, Alicia Patterson has also created a new form of U.S. journalism. It is as perfectly in step with the new trend in American life-the flight to the suburbs-as tabloids were to the jazz-happy '20s. When she launched Newsday on alligator-shaped Long Island in 1940, Publisher Patterson set out to violate every canon of sedate, well-mannered and deadly dull suburban journalism. Instead of loading her paper with name-dropping personal columns, handouts, accounts of tea parties and bake sales and local news that would offend...
...year after they were married, he set his words into action by putting up about $70,000 to start Newsday on Long Island, an area whose potential growth he had measured through an elaborate survey. "I've always had a passion to own a newspaper," says Publisher Patterson gratefully. "Harry pushed me into...
When he gets sick of painting altogether. Albright taxies home to Chicago's fashionable North Side (his wife is Josephine Medill Patterson Reeve, daughter of the late founder of New York's Daily News) or goes off to his Wyoming ranch At such times of rest, Albright readily confesses that he does "not enjoy painting much. I go at it the hard way. with my eyes wide open. But I do like getting the results I want. I'd rather paint one good picture than a hundred bad ones. Anybody can paint bad ones-including...