The Press: The Fifth Generation

Last week the young men of the Harvard Crimson made another bow to the inevitable encroachment of womankind, and for the first time elected a girl writer to their editorial board. Their choice came with well-established credentials. She is Alice Patterson Albright, 18, redheaded Radcliffe freshman and a fifth-generation heir apparent to the famed Patterson-McCormick newspaper publishing dynasty of New York and Chicago.

Vibrant, unassuming Alice is the daughter of Chicago Painter Ivan Albright and Josephine Medill Patterson, youngest daughter of the late Captain Joe Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News....

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