Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...print the news." The dynasty that followed never forgot this advice, but each of its flamboyant members had something additional to contribute: a stamp of personality that enlivened four generations of American journalism. In Chicago it was the incomparable Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, in Washington the acid Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, in New York the swashbuckling Captain Joseph Medill Patterson. More recently, a raven-haired bundle of energy named Alicia Patterson Guggenheim bore the family banner with her Long Island tabloid, Newsday. Last week at the age of 56, Alicia Patterson died, and for the first time in 143 years...
...large type, three-column width on its pages, and a center Feature section stuffed in upside down for handy removal. Her interest covered every field-from politics to sin in the choir loft. When a frustrated editor asked her what she wanted in the paper, she shouted back the Patterson formula: "Dogs! Cats! Murders!" Guggenheim kept an eye on the business side, but had some editorial ideas too. They did not always agree with Alicia's. First year on the streets, the paper was in print with an open editorial split between the proprietors on presidential nominees. When Editor...
With the fight just three weeks away, Floyd Patterson, 28, is not brimming with overconfidence at his chances of regaining the Heavyweight Boxing crown. "I will not hit the ground/ In the first round,/ How does that sound?" he asked reporters. It sounded like soft Clay, but Sonny Listen, 29, didn't mind. "I like Patterson; I really do. I don't plan to let the fight go past three rounds." Besides, what Sonny is really interested in is getting at Cassius the Brassiest after he disposes of Floyd. He has his Las Vegas training camp fitted...
William Allan Patterson, president. United Air Lines...
Having been fooled once, many of them take refuge in the safety of "cautious optimism"-but the accent is on optimism. William Allan Patterson. 63, the breezy former banker who heads United Air Lines, feels "a great weight lifting from my shoulders" as a result of the economy's pickup. Metropolitan Life Insurance President Gilbert Fitzhugh, 53, who puts in an 80-hour week investing the insurance savings of 44 million Americans and Canadians, thinks that nowadays "individual businessmen are more optimistic than the economists." John F. Gordon, 63, an Annapolis-trained engineer who climbed the corporate stairs...