║PAR@ ` ·TEXT ` ∞Patterson, Alicia1906╨1963newspaper publisher and editorBorn in Chicago on October 15, 1906, Alicia Patterson was of the city╒s journalistic dynasty. She was the daughter of Joseph Medill Patterson and the great-granddaughter of Joseph Medill of the Chicago Tribune; Eleanor Medill Patterson was her aunt. She was educated privately in the United States and Europe. In 1927╨1928 she served an apprenticeship by working in the promotion department and then as a cub reporter for her father╒s New York Daily News. She then wrote articles for Liberty magazine, at that time also owned by the family. After Liberty was sold to Bernard Macfadden in 1931 she freelanced a bit and attained distinction as a pilot (she set a women╒s New York-to-Philadelphia record) before returning in 1932 to the Daily News, for which she wrote book reviews for 11 years. In 1939 Patterson and her husband, Harry F. Guggenheim (her third, married that year) bought the plant and equipment of the short-lived Nassau County Journal, and on September 9, 1940, they launched a new daily tabloid, Newsday. Alicia Patterson, in addition to holding 49 percent of the stock, was from the start publisher and editor of the paper. Innovative in format, politically independent, sensitive to local issues while providing full national and international coverage, Newsday quickly surpassed in circulation its chief competitor, the Nassau Review-Star, which went out of business in 1953. By 1954 circulation was in excess of 213,000, and by 1963 it exceeded 375,000. It was the leading competitor of the New York City dailies and over the years won numerous awards for excellence in typography and reporting. Alicia Patterson served as a trustee of the Harry F. Guggenheim Foundation and of the Fund for the Republic and in various other public service capacities. She remained publisher and editor of Newsday until her death in New York City on July 2, 1963; she was the last surviving member of her family still active in newspaper publishing. Ästyl ` ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ < !I ■ !I !I !I ▐ ( !I ≥ !I ⌡ !I ÷ !I !I $ !I + !I d !I k !I !I ) !I \ 5¬ ] !I σ !I · !I !I !I 9 !I @ !I ? !I F !I é !I ö !I \ !I c !I link ` HYPR (
