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...made the Daily News, the late Captain Joe Patterson, demanded that his headline hunters make their heads "understandable, applicable and bright." The man who keeps them that way is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), red-mustached William Bernard Murphy, 53, copydesk chief. A paper like the Daily News is only as good as its copy desk, and the desk is as good as its chief, who must combine speed, accuracy, zeal, bad temper, and a quick eye on guard for double meanings...
Offensive. In Sacramento, Calif., Margaret Patterson explained to police how she had been able to drive off a thug who tried to hold her up: "I just laughed...
...program, a Signature-WHRV affair, matched the lines of students against the resistance of six Intercollegiate Fashion Show models. Results favored the men, with Hilary Smart '47 copping a date with Jean Ford of Emmanuel College, and Michael Graham '52 winning an evening with Sargent freshman Mary Ann Patterson...
Small (5 ft. 3 in.) and expensively dressed, "Miz Patterson" (as her staff calls her) keeps a purposeful brown eye on everything from editorial cartoons to finishing touches on Newsday's new plant in Garden City, L.I. She works in her small office off the city room from 10:30 a.m. to cocktail time. From the vast Guggenheim chateau at Port Washington or their bandbox house in Manhattan, her deceptively lazy drawl often calls pink-cheeked Managing Editor Alan Hathway, a Daily News alumnus, at any hour of the night...
This month, with Newsday hitting the street on clockwork schedule, Miz Patterson will sail for Europe and a spell of reporting. With her will go her friend, Publisher Dorothy Thackrey of the New Dealing, pro-Zionist New York Post. Alicia has plenty of plans to keep her busy when she gets back. The Guggenheims are going into radio at Bridgeport, Conn., and some day Alicia would like to surround New York City with Newsdays in Westchester and New Jersey. "There are a few papers here & there," she says with a predatory glint, "that I'd like to compete with...