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...Patterson had left behind him a high-ranking team of admen, business managers and circulation wizards. But he took with him the unique editorial talents that had made his paper the most successful and the most disliked tabloid in the country. Keeping its diverse, perverse personality alive was now squarely up to Clarke...
...jobs in U.S. journalism - managing editor of the New York Daily News. Last week, when he got back, he had a bigger one: executive editor, secretary of the board and a director of the giant News Syndicate Co. Adman Roy Holliss, head man since Captain Joseph M. Patterson's death last spring, had been killed in an auto crash; in the reshuffling of executives that followed, Clarke's stock had gone way up (to about $150,000 a year...
...letting his son fill in. Before long, young Clarke became picture editor of Manhattan's first "picture newspaper." He left for an eight-year stretch on the World, skipped back in 1930 before the World's end, stepped into his father's old job in 1939. Patterson turned him into a past master of the devious techniques of tabloid journalism...
...talent, including Poison Penman John O'Donnell and Broadway Columnist Danton Walker, who has a crystal ball suffering from cataract. One of Clarke's chores is a daily conference with Editorial Writer Reuben Maury and Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor (who used to get their signals from Patterson). Sitting in with them now is a brand-newcomer, quiet, 44-year-old Donald Thompson, an American Weekly graduate. Clarke hired him to backstop Maury. Thompson expects no trouble in adapting himself to Daily News policies-plugs for the metric system, a world calendar and isolationism, slugs for Russia...
Last week there was no sign that the Daily News, in losing Patterson, had lost his "common touch." Its headlines still crackled (IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT, u.s. ANSWER TO TITO); its editorials were still full of beans. Its latest comment on those who would share, or ban, the atom bomb: We SAY IT'S SPINACH AND WE SAY THE HELL WITH...