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Seven years ago this week Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson put her small and pretty feet under a Hearst desk as editor & publisher of the Washington Herald. Much-traveled Mrs. Patterson had always wanted to run a Washington paper. Much-propertied Mr. Hearst had long wondered what to do about the Herald, a consistent money-loser with a piddling circulation of 60,000. It was a happy solution for both, and the only long faces were those of Joseph Medill Patterson, who did not like the idea of his sister working for his archrival, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. who was promptly made...
Newest idea for covering Labor is Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson's Economic Battle Page started last week in his tabloid New York News. Like the Presidential Battle Page which he published last fall during the campaign, it was a series of arguments and sassy talk approved before publication by leaders of both camps and run in adjoining columns on the same page. Interviews were made by two News crack reporters, Carl Warren and Fred Pasley. One page last week quoted the wives of a striker and non-striker in a steel mill at Monroe, Mich...
Sociologically-minded Capt. Patterson was ready to syndicate his Economic Battle Page, announced in an editorial that "we're now open for orders...
Constantine Patterson '39 was elected assistant manager of the Tennis team last night. George Lee '40 won the Freshman competition and will receive his numerals...
...assignment to write as he pleases for the Sun. Editorialist Mencken, who writes a weekly article for the Evening Sun, has been continuously employed on the two papers for over 30 years, is now a director of the Sun company. Present management of the Sunpapers, headed by President Paul Patterson, has sought to make the Sun and the Evening Sun separate journalistic entities, although national advertising may be inserted in both morning and evening issues at a single rate. Unwilling to support either candidate in last year's Presidential election, both Suns are liberal, but somewhat leery...