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Arlen, Alice, 1940-2016.
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Patterson, Alicia, 1906-1963.
Newsday (Hempstead, N.Y.) -- History.
Women publishers -- United States -- Biography.
Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Women air pilots -- United States -- Biography.
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Horsemen and horsewomen -- United States -- Biography.
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Arlen, Alice, 1940-2016.
Patterson, Alicia, 1906-1963.
Newsday (Hempstead, N.Y.) -- History.
Women publishers -- United States -- Biography.
Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Women air pilots -- United States -- Biography.
Women adventurers -- United States -- Biography.
Horsemen and horsewomen -- United States -- Biography.
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The huntress : the adventures, escapades, and triumphs of Alicia Patterson : aviatrix, sportswoman, journalist, publisher /
Alice
Arlen and Michael J. Arlen.
by
Arlen,
Alice
,
1940-2016
.
Pantheon Books, [2016]
Call #:
070.5092 P317a
Subjects
Patterson, Alicia, 1906-1963.
Newsday (Hempstead, N.Y.) -- History.
Women publishers -- United States -- Biography.
Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Women air pilots -- United States -- Biography.
Women adventurers -- United States -- Biography.
Horsemen and horsewomen -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781101871133 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
357 pages : illustrations
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"The fascinating, adventurous life of Alicia Patterson, who became, at age thirty-four, one of the youngest and most successful newspaper publishers in America when she founded Newsday. Alicia's rebellious early years and her dominating father, Joseph Patterson. Founder and editor of the New York Daily News. Patterson was a complicated and glamorous figure who in his youth had reported on Pancho Villa in Mexico and had outraged his conservative Chicago family by briefly espousing socialism. Not once but twice, first at age twenty, Alicia agreed to marry men her father chose, despite having her own more interesting suitors. He encouraged her to do the difficult training required for an aviation transport license; in 1934 she became only the tenth woman in America to receive one. Patterson brought her along to London to meet with Lord Beaverbrook, to Rome to meet Mussolini, and to Moscow in 1937, at the time of Stalin's "show trials," where a young George Kennan took her under his wing. Alicia caught the journalism bug writing for Liberty magazine, an offshoot of the Daily News. A trip to French Indochina highlighted her hunting skills and made the sultan of Johor an ardent admirer; another trip would involve India, the dangerous sport of pigsticking, several maharajas, and a tiger hunt. A third marriage, to Harry Guggenheim, blew hot and cold but it did last; it was with him that she started Newsday in a former car dealership on Long Island. Governor Adlai E. Stevenson, two-time Democratic candidate for president, would be one of her last admirers."--Provided by publisher.
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Arlen, Michael J.
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