Another Patterson

When rugged Joseph Medill moved to Chicago in 1855 and bought the Chicago Tribune, he founded a news dynasty which today controls three of the most potent papers in the U. S. One of his grandsons, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, now runs the Tribune. Another grandson, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, owns the pioneer tabloid New York Daily News. Granddaughter Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson publishes the Washington Times-Herald. Their aggregate circulation is close to 3,000,000.

This week another of Joseph Medill's dynasty, brown-eyed, athletic, 30-year-old Alicia Patterson, the Captain's daughter, became a publisher. Wife (since July 1939) of onetime U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Harry Frank Guggenheim, Alicia has like him been a flying enthusiast, been married thrice. (Husband I was the late James Simpson Jr., son of Marshall Field & Co.'s onetime chairman; Husband II was Broker Joseph W. Brooks.) Her newly founded paper: an evening tabloid, Newsday, a "country newspaper" for rich, suburban Nassau County, L. I.

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