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...middle-readers were predominantly Nelson, judicial, greying Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, debonair, trigger-quick Under Secretary of Navy James V. Forrestal. Patterson and Forrestal clung to the road's middle as desperately as if the road shoulders were mined...
...quarter-century ago the fantastically rich Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick and the fantastically rich Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, first cousins, began squabbling, ten years later parted. Of their contrasting characters legend has flourished ever since-Cousin Bertie McCormick, aristocratic, aloof publisher of the die-hard Republican Chicago Tribune, and Cousin Joe, masses-minded, erratic, lusty, ex-Socialist, publisher of the arch-New Deal New York Daily News. Each in his own way was a crass sensationalist. Joe got the biggest circulation in the U. S., Bertie the biggest in the Midwest. Said Friend-of-the-People Cousin Joe, onetime intimate...
...years ago, when the Daily News moved into its shining skyscraper new home, observers noted a trend in Captain Patterson toward quasi-respectability. Said he: "The Daily News was built on legs, but when we got enough circulation we draped them." Momentarily his contrast with Colonel McCormick was modulated. But two years later, with the Roosevelt election, the contrast flared sharper than ever: the News boomed Roosevelt and the New Deal; the Tribune screamed at both. They agreed on one thing: the need for a Big Navy. Last year Cousins Joe and Bertie found another bond: they agreed on appeasing...
...quarter-century, through hell & high water, Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson had cherished beyond all other friends his pal Max Annenberg. They had met when Max, forsaking Hearst, was strong-arming his way up as powerful circulation builder for the Chicago Tribune; friendship had deepened as the German-Jewish ex-newsboy pushed circulation of Publisher Patterson's New York Daily News to the largest...
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