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...year since Founder Joseph Medill Patterson's death, the circulation of the irreverent and inimitable tabloid New York Daily News continued to shoot up. The U.S. newspaper with the most readers now has 2,375,000 daily customers and 4,800,000 on Sundays. Yet Joe Patterson's old title of president was unfilled. At first most of the trade bet that cousin Robert Rutherford (Chicago Tribune) McCormick and sister Eleanor Medill (Washington Times-Herald) Patterson would soon move in. But even Bertie and Cissie could see that the News was doing fine without them, in the hands...
Washington, which dearly loves its gossip, has had to do without Walter Winchell's small chatter for nearly two years. Cissie Patterson dropped him from her Times-Herald and no other Washington paper would sign him on. This week Winchell's gossip column was back in the capital, but in a place where few Washingtonians would...
...United's Patterson [TIME, April 21] spend more time supervising his airline and less time indulging in smart repartee with Eddie Rickenbacker. The plight of the average United passenger who is dumped at an airport miles outside the city is not unlike that of Raft-Man Rickenbacker...
...Patterson might drop in on his airline terminal restaurant at Denver, Colo, some morning for breakfast. He will find: 1) door usually locked, 2) one disgruntled, rude waitress on duty, 3) food greasy, unpalatable . . . 4) sanitation at ceiling zero...
According to Variety, in a front-page "scoop" signed by Editor Abel Green, rich Marshall Field was waving his bankroll under Winchell's nose, to lure him away from Hearst and into the Chicago Sun, as Field had lured Cartoonist Milton Caniff from McCormick & Patterson. The bait: $200,000 a year, double Winchell's income from Hearst...