Just after noon one day last week at Dower House, the vast 17th Century Maryland manse that once housed the Earls of Calvert and Baltimore, a telephone rang. The Washington Times-Herald was on the phone; an editor had a message for his boss. The butler and maid went to wake their mistress. They found her in her big bed, slumped over a book and an early edition of her paper. A heart attack had killed copper-haired Eleanor Medill Patterson, 63, the vain, shrewd, lonely, and lavishly spoiled woman who used a newspaper to speak...
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