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...exclaimed the publishers of the Chicago Tribune and the Daily News (Manhattan). It was small wonder that the musings of J. M. Patterson and R. R. McCormick differed from the poet: they had not committed his indiscretions, nor had he made a fortune by collecting pennies from the gum-chewers of a great nation...
...Messrs. Patterson and McCormick, having driven out all comers except Hearst and a small business daily from the morning newspaper field in Chicago, looked ahead for new fields to conquer. They chose Manhattan and there five years ago founded a little illustrated sheet, of scandalmongering propensities, the Daily News. The gum-chewers of Manhattan seized the News and gloated. Pennies by the carload rolled into the proprietors' pockets. And yet they felt the urge for "More! More...
With the magazine in hand it is easier to conjecture what went on in the fertile minds of Messrs. Patterson and McCormick...
...Liberty spread her wings and flew, just as Messrs. Patterson and McCormick had planned. How high? If one can believe an advertisement published in the Chicago Tribune the day following Liberty's appearance on the newsstands, there had been sold in one day the entire first issue-725,000 copies. (According to another account in the Tribune the number was 735,000-at any rate, a great number...
Frederick B. Patterson, head of the great National Cash Register Co. of Dayton, Ohio, is also President of the National Aeronautic Association. He has just returned from a trip to Europe, undertaken to make the Pulitzer Trophy race next October an international contest. M. Dewoitine, French constructor, will enter a biplane of 500 horsepower with Sadi Lecointe, holder of the world's altitude record (almost seven miles), as his pilot. The Fiat Co. of Turin, Italy, will probably be represented by Pilot Brae Papa. The Belgians will come in if they have any luck at the Beaumont Cup race next...