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...sniff a new trend; its massive circulation was slipping a bit. The News was still the biggest U.S. paper (2,175,000 daily, 4,500,000 Sunday). But some of its boldness, impudence and razor-keen sense of what the public wanted had died in 1946 with Founder Joe Patterson. To some longtime News readers, it seemed as though the paper had lost the exact formula for Patterson's magic elixir, and was trying to concoct a substitute. Manhattan newshounds speculated that the editors were even poring over old files in search of the missing ingredient...
Born. To Josephine Medill Patterson Reeve Albright, 35, daughter of the late Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News, and Artist Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, 51, who specializes in painfully detailed paintings of decay and degeneration (Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida and the Dorian Gray painted for M-G-M): their second child, first daughter (she had two children by a former marriage); in Chicago. Name: Blandina van Etten. Weight...
...settlement was to everybody's advantage. The seven executives who had inherited the paper from "Cissy" Patterson did not want their new regime hamstrung by months of legal wrangling. Countess Gizycka did not relish the unsavory process of trying to prove that her mother had not been of sound mind when she willed the paper to her top men. Under reported terms of the settlement Cissy Patterson's daughter will get no share of the Times-Herald, but she will get the mother's Long Island home and other personal property left her under the will...
...editors of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, the beefy, flashily dressed stranger introduced himself as Bob Patterson, an all-round newshand. He'd just breezed in from Atlanta, he said, via Hollywood, where he had written Brute Force for Mark Hellinger. He wanted...
...March 1946, he got the job-writing the new society chitchat and gossip column that W.R. Hearst had ordered. As "Freddie Francisco," Patterson filled his column with racy penthouse scandal and jive talk, was soon earning $15,000 a year as the Examiner's prize drawing card. Once, when he called a lady Oakland evangelist "sexy-looking," her congregation picketed the Examiner. A great gagster, Freddie rented a beard and paraded with the pickets. He also crusaded against Elmer ("Bones") Remmer, owner of San Francisco's three biggest gambling houses, and drove Bones out of business. (When offered...