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...father told her she was making a big mistake, and he should have known. The late Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, the moody genius who had made his raucous New York Daily News the biggest U.S. newspaper, said that the suburbs of New York City wouldn't go for a tabloid "home paper." But daughter Alicia Patterson Guggenheim had the stubborn streak of all the Medill clan. Eight years ago, in a drafty garage at Hempstead, L.I., she started the tabloid Newsday, to prove her father wrong...
Family Arguments. "We are not part of the McCormick-Patterson axis," says Alicia shortly. "We're really independent. We can attack anybody we want, because we don't want anything from anybody." In 1940, when Alicia was for F.D.R. and her husband for Wendell Willkie, they argued it out on the editorial page. Now there is no argument; both are for Dewey. She also broke with her father, editorially, on his isolationism. Newsday looks with favor on ECA, and, like its commuting readers, with impatience on the Long Island railroad...
...only specific action by the Committee was the appointment of a three-man Food Sub-Committee to meet with the dining room manager of the Union. Chosen for this suggestion group were Douglas W. Patterson '52, Robert D. Mohlman '52, and Benjamin F. MacDonald...
...kind of story that Eleanor Medill Patterson, who liked her news on the dramatic side, would have enjoyed telling-on someone else. Her death had plunged her Washington Times-Herald and the seven employees to whom she left it, into a confusing legal tangle, with overtones of violence...
Last week the plot thickened in the mysterious suicide of Charles B. Porter, Cissy Patterson's onetime treasurer (TIME, Sept. 27). In Manhattan, Roland de Corneille, 21-year-old divinity student, and protégé of Porter, told an eye-popping tale. Porter had been offered a $50,000 bribe, said De Corneille, if he would support a phony $500,000 claim against Cissy's estate. He refused, but had told De Corneille that the bribers were trying to make him change his mind and had "threatened...