Word: pattersons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last five years after I die." Captain Joseph Medill Patterson may have been only half joking when he predicted the end of the New York Daily News, the big and boisterous tabloid that he ran as a one-man show from the day he helped found it* in 1919 until his death in 1946. But his survivors on the paper knew better than to fiddle with the captain's successful formula. "Those who are left behind," said the News in an obitu ary editorial, "will do their best to keep this page and the paper what he would want...
Frailty & Indiscretion. Fifteen years after the captain's death, the News is almost as big as ever, with 1,980,338 daily circulation (it peaked at 2,400,000 in 1947) and 3,244,667 on Sunday. It still looks and reads like the paper Joe Patterson left: full of crime, sex, human frailty and indiscretion, all jauntily regarded. But the rest of the news is in the News too. And it is still written with a skillfully crisp and colloquial flair, still gaudily bedizened by the flippest headline writers in the business (SINGER CROAKS ON HIGH...
...publisher ever spent more off hours mingling with the hurrying crowd than Joe Patterson. He not only filled his paper with lively stuff-plenty of comics, features, serialized fiction, puzzle contests and the best picture spreads in town-but he knew just how to sell the "important but dull" story to the gum-chewers. News editorials generally read like street-corner arguments, a tribute in part to Patterson, who once rejected an editorial because "it reads too much as though an editorial writer had written it," and to Chief Editorial Writer Reuben Maury, who knew how to transfer the boss...
Stocks & Surprise. Patterson was an all-out isolationist before World War II, and his paper ran little foreign news until the start of the war. Today, says Executive Editor Richard Clarke, 64, "we find ourselves giving a hell of a lot of space to foreign affairs because that's what the public 'is interested in." Patterson's towering editorial rages have largely disappeared, and his quiddities, which persisted out of habit, now seem to be receding. (Although he supported Franklin Delano Roosevelt for three elections, the captain got so mad at F.D.R. just before Pearl Harbor that...
...says Clarke, "I think Mr. Patterson would like the looks of the News." Its rivals think it has lost a lot of its old zip, but it still holds the loyalty of an awful lot of straphangers, and still boasts twice the circulation of any other paper...