Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When word of the imminent sale of Long Island's Newsday first leaked to the press (TIME, March 23), the main opposition came from six minority stockholders (49%), all heirs of the late Alicia Patterson Guggenheim. Emotionally committed to Alicia Patterson's strong sense of local identity and control, they were not eager to submit to absentee landlordship. Last week the majority stockholder (51%), Captain Harry Guggenheim, announced that he had indeed sold, for a reported $33 million. "I believe," said the Captain, that the sale "will assure the independence of Newsday." Said Joseph Albright...
...whole Festival, got a lively interpretation. This unusual piece, which integrates piano, chorus and orchestra, seemed better prepared than any piece to date. The piano part sparkled, without any of the inference of keyboard exercises which Serkin had previously given. The Chorus Pro Musica, prepared by Alfred Nash Patterson, was in excellent tone, as might be expected from any vocal group which Patterson has conducted. After this opener, the night's program was well established. For the first time in the week, a piano concerto came off flawlessly. The Fourth Concerto had neither the over-familiarity nor the mechanical feeling...
...anxious to divest himself of the paper, and Chandler is anxious to buy, to the extent of a reported $75 million worth of Times Mirror stock. The rub: Minority Stockholders Joseph Albright (Newsday's Washington bureau chief) and Alice Albright Hoge, the heirs of Mrs. Guggenheim (Alicia Patterson), were balking. At Newsday itself, at least 124 reporters and editors signed a petition protesting the sale...
...courses taught by visiting professor Orlando Patterson-AAS 14, "Caribbean Social Structure," and AAS 30, "African and West Indian Literature" -have proved particularly popular, Guinier said...