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...better days, J. M. Patterson and R. R. McCormick offered a prize of $25,000 for the winning title of a magazine they were preparing, and they paid the money to somebody for the name Liberty. TIME [May 17] now announces that [TIME, Inc.] will publish a weekly covering sports, and that it has not yet been titled. For anything from $25,000 down-but anything-may I suggest that this new publication be named SWEAT...
...daughter of the late Joseph Medill Patterson, Alicia Patterson revered the journalistic talent that made his New York Daily News (circ. 2,109,601) the biggest U.S. paper. But she did not always agree with him about newspapering. Although her father warned her that Long Island would never "take to" a tabloid daily, she went ahead anyway and started Newsday, made it a spectacular success. This week Alicia Patterson, 47, won a journalistic award that has always escaped the Daily News. The Pulitzer Prize board gave Newsday its top prize for the most ""disinterested and meritorious public service rendered...
...Changeover. "Bertie" McCormick had good reason to sell. Ever since he bought the T-H for $4,500,000 in 1949 (from seven of the paper's top executives, who had been willed the paper by McCormick's cousin, Cissy Patterson), he has had trouble with it. McCormick transformed it from a racy, sensational, popular daily into a paper much like his Chicago Tribune, to bring "the United States [i.e., the colonel's isolationist view of the world] to Washington...
Geithner, the team captain, is perhaps as good a shot as Wilson, but has been primarily responsible for setting up plays. Shepard will match him, captain-for-captain, with Ed Krinsky. The forwards, Gene Givens at 6-4 and Art Patterson at 6-3, are both taller than starting Crimson forwards Harry Sacks and Bill Dennis...
Sacks is the Ivy Group's leading scorer, with an 18.4 point average, but scored only four points against B.U. Patterson has scored about 14 per game...