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...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 by a U.S. newspaper...
Newsday (circ. 190,151) won the prize for its campaign exposing corruption and graft at New York's trotting tracks (TIME, Oct. 19). Four years ago, Newsday Managing Editor Alan Hathway, an alumnus of the New York tabloid News, started hammering at the Roosevelt Raceway, about half a mile from Newsday's plant, charged that Long Island's Building Trades Boss (A.F.L.) William De Koning was shaking down builders and track employees for close to $1,000,000 a year. Governor Thomas E. Dewey appointed a special commission to clean up the raceways, and last month Labor...
...alarm. If Bevan could swing the party to support "a British neutralism" between the U.S. and Russia, "the leadership would be his reward,'' noted the Manchester Guardian, "but there is nothing more improbable in politics than that Mr. Bevan will succeed." Bitterest of all was the Laborite tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,500,000): "Again he has shown that the greatest blunder the party could make would be to elect him leader . . . For who can follow a whirlwind? How can a man who does not give loyalty expect to command loyalty from others...
...wording of the billboards is familiar: "Famous, flashy and crashing kid possesses a resolute punch." When a jukebox with colored lights and boogie-woogie records arrives in Luang Nakon's brothel and the girls take to nylon blouses imprinted with headlines from a New York tabloid (GIN-CRAZED, SLAYS THREE), it becomes clear that a lot has happened since Anna met the King of Siam...
Died. Jacquin Leonard (Jack) Lait, 71, oldtime Chicago newspaperman, since 1936 editor of Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror (circ. 913,691 daily, 1,664,703 Sunday); after long illness; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Editor Lait doubled the Mirror's circulation, with Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer turned out four controversial "Confidential" guides to U.S. scandal and vice. Asked how he kept up his prodigious writing output (8 plays, 20 books, 1,500 short stories), Author Lait rasped: "Fiction is a cinch. I just set the screw in my head for 2,800 words, and out it comes...