Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experienced ax man will tell you, if Floyd Patterson doesn't handle his right hand more sophistically on June 20 than he docs in his wood-chopping exhibition, Ingemar "will chop him down again...
...Alicia Patterson was a poor little rich girl, the daughter of New York Daily News Founder Joseph Medill Patterson, childless and restless after two divorces, with little to occupy her but New York's nightclub circuit. Harry Guggenheim also was born rich; heir to a mining and minerals fortune, he headed two of his family's multimillion-dollar foundations, served as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba. In 1939, Harry and Alicia were married and set up light housekeeping in a 30-room Norman chateau at Sands Point, Long Island. Within a year, Guggenheim found a novel way of giving...
Alicia's new paper was Newsday, and Editor Patterson was born for her job. Breaking all the mossbacked rules of suburban journalism, she made Newsday a paper for all Long Island, a lively and irreverent daily that could always find a local angle to apply to the news of the nation and the world. Newsday, with more advertising linage than any other New York daily and with a circulation that has boomed to 305,958, is a phenomenal commercial success...
...barns ($742,081 in 1959), Guggenheim spends much of his time following his thoroughbreds, is rarely seen around Newsday's offices, and is generally content to let Alicia run the Newsday show. It is in the area of politics that Newsday President Harry Guggenheim and Newsday Editor Alicia Patterson part editorial company...
...Ronda, Patterson's life is monas tic. Says his trainer, Dan Florio: "Even his wife can't go upstairs to his room." In his tiny, pink-walled room, equipped only with necessary furniture, a crucifix and a certificate naming him an honorary Fairfield County deputy sheriff, Patterson gets up at 6 a.m. He puts on khaki pants a leather jacket, paratrooper boots and a cream-colored cap, runs from three to five miles before breakfast. He chops wood, skips rope, works for hours on the bags. In the dance-floor ring, he takes out his frustrations...