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...With You." One night in France, Joe Patterson and his cousin, both A.E.F. officers, sat down on a farmyard dunghill for a heart-to-heart chat...
Cousin Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Tribune (and co-manager of the Medill Trust),* was certain to move in. And Sister Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson, shrill publisher of the Washington Times-Herald, would replace Brother Joe as a trustee. Neither has Joe's common touch...
Where or why Patterson got his uncanny touch, he himself never knew. Like Cousin Bertie, he was born (in Chicago, Jan. 6, 1879) with a silver spoon in his mouth. After Groton, like his cousin, he went to Yale. A year before his graduation, he traipsed off to China to run messages for correspondents covering the Boxer Rebellion. His father, Robert W. Patterson, was Joseph Medill's crown prince on the Tribune, and gave young Joe his first $15-a-week job. Impatient with the plodding Tribune and full of admiration for Hearst, he quit in disgust...
After a valiant but fruitless effort to improve the sweatshop lot of working girls, Patterson went all out for Socialism. In 1906 he got in Dutch with his family by writing a bitter magazine piece called Confessions of a Drone. Excerpt: "I have an income of between $10,000 and $20,000 a year. I spend all of it. I produce nothing-am doing no work. I [the type] can keep on doing this all my life unless the present social system is changed...
...Patterson and his best friend, Max Annenberg, the circulation genius whom the cousins had hired away from Hearst, found a way out and up. They dumped the News on foreign-language newsstands for buyers who could understand its pictures if not its captions, and peddled it to subway riders who seemed to have a boundless appetite for crime and sex stories...