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THE HUNTRESS—
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The Story
The authors take us into the lost WASP world of Alicia Patterson: her larger-than-life father--scion of the Patterson-Medill Chicago publishing dynasty--and her traditional mother, her childhood of foreign caretakers, travel, and boarding schools. Married off at 23 to a friend of her father's, Alicia spent little time at home during the brief marriage, instead earned a transport pilot's license (only the tenth woman in the country to do so), hunted big game in Indochina and India; and began to write for her father's newspaper The Daily News. Her second father-orchestrated marriage failed, but her last, to someone of her own choosing, Harry Guggenheim, resulted in the founding of Newsday in 1940.
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The authors take us into the lost WASP world of Alicia Patterson: her larger-than-life father--scion of the Patterson-Medill Chicago publishing dynasty--and her traditional mother, her childhood of foreign caretakers, travel, and boarding schools. Married off at 23 to a friend of her father's, Alicia spent little time at home during the brief marriage, instead earned a transport pilot's license (only the tenth woman in the country to do so), hunted big game in Indochina and India; and began to write for her father's newspaper The Daily News. Her second father-orchestrated marriage failed, but her last, to someone of her own choosing, Harry Guggenheim, resulted in the founding of Newsday in 1940.
