in her own right eleanor medill patterson was publisher of the most widely read daily in the capital washington times herald called by many the inside and out of the profession damnedest newspaper ever to hit the streets. according to popular journalistic axiom, the pattersons like their first cousin had printed in blood. their grandfather, firefight revolution of editor in chief and principal owner of the chicago tribune from the tenth year immediately preceding the civil war until his death in 1899. in 1940s under three decades of colonel mccormick's anti roosevelt and isolationist thread the tribune grew into a widely read newspaper in the midwest and the most widely circulated in the nation. eleanor medill patterson was the understand only girl of regeneration among boys with her grandfather's darling. she inherited a disproportionate share of tribune co. stock and considerable fortune. by passing a law roosevelt, beth truman, dorr the shift, emily post and every other prominent american woman of the 1940s. colliers weekly said that with her patrimony and attainment and latest at

eleanor medill patterson as both the giunta stand the only girl of her generation among the blaze had been her grandfather's darling. as such she inherited the disproportionate share of the company's stock and considerable fortune. bypassing eleanor roosevelt and truman and clare boothe luce, dorothy schiff, emily post and a free of a prominent american woman of the 1940's. weekly contended that with her patrimony, her own attainments in her latest accolade, quote, cissy patterson, nobody calls her eleanor, is probably the most powerful woman in america. they added and perhaps the most heated. so cissy patterson was, as i said, the daughter rough chicago, and she was born in 81 and as a woman born in the late century she had no expectation of getting a job or going into the family business at the tribune, and so she did what the young heiress is typically the turn of the century, and she made one of the then fashionable so-called international matches in her case with a very handsome but sort of dubious count who was an ethnic poles who had grown up in vienna and whose ancestral state