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...Herald was on the phone; an editor had a message for his boss. The butler and maid went to wake their mistress. They found her in her big bed, slumped over a book and an early edition of her paper. A heart attack had killed copper-haired Eleanor Medill Patterson, 63, the vain, shrewd, lonely, and lavishly spoiled woman who used a newspaper to speak her whims with a quarter of a million tongues...
...plenty of warning. Five years ago, after a mild heart attack, her doctors warned her to ease up. Imperious Cissie Patterson went right on sipping Scotch & water and fine champagnes. She also went right on as owner, editor and publisher of the Times-Herald, which she had nursed to success after her friend William Randolph Hearst had failed...
...Game. One of the wealthiest women in the U.S., and perhaps the most hated, restless Cissie left behind her a fortune of perhaps$40 million - not counting the Times-Herald and her huge interest in the McCormick-Patterson Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News. Who would inherit all this? The first in line: her daughter, Felicia Gizycka and Granddaughter Ellen Cameron Pearson Arnold, child of Columnist Drew Pearson and apple of Cissie's eye. But nobody would inherit her deadly hates...
...Washington, Cissie Patterson's Times-Herald, little cousin of the Trib, picked up the story. When Mississippi's John Rankin read it, he brayed to the House that "if it is true, it certainly is an outrage and . . . Congress should investigate it, and should...
...Owned by Alicia Patterson, daughter of the late Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News...