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Alicia Patterson at Newsday, 1959

1958. NEWSDAY publisher Alicia Patterson holding informal mtg. w. man. ed. Alan Hathway (R), rewrite man Bernie Bookbinder (C) & her personal secy. Dorothy Holdsworth (L), in city room of NEWSDAY.


Alicia Patterson, founder and editor of Newsday.
3 original prints and contacts. Alicia Patterson, Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 21, 1959. Photo shoot: 11/26/58, Garden City, New York. In the newsroom, in a cab, in front of and in her townhouse. With co-workers and interviewees.

(October 15, 1906 – July 2, 1963) she was the founder and editor of Newsday, which became a respected and Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper. With Neysa McMein, she created the Deathless Deer comic strip in 1943. John Steinbeck, Patterson's friend since 1956, wrote a series of articles in the form of "Letters to Alicia" for Newsday following her death.
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1958. NEWSDAY publisher Alicia Patterson holding informal mtg. w. man. ed. Alan Hathway (R), rewrite man Bernie Bookbinder (C) & her personal secy. Dorothy Holdsworth (L), in city room of NEWSDAY.<br /> <br /> <br /> Alicia Patterson, founder and editor of Newsday. <br /> 3 original prints and contacts. Alicia Patterson, Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 21, 1959. Photo shoot: 11/26/58, Garden City, New York. In the newsroom, in a cab, in front of and in her townhouse. With co-workers and interviewees. <br /> <br /> (October 15, 1906 – July 2, 1963) she was the founder and editor of Newsday, which became a respected and Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper. With Neysa McMein, she created the Deathless Deer comic strip in 1943. John Steinbeck, Patterson's friend since 1956, wrote a series of articles in the form of "Letters to Alicia" for Newsday following her death.