the syndicate—saw the discarded samples, and encouraged Messick to change Brenda from a "girl bandit" to a reporter. Patterson grudgingly accepted the strip, but ran it in the Chicago Tribune's Sunday comic section, rather than the daily paper. He refused to run it in the Daily News, which finally carried Brenda Starr, Reporter in 1948, two years after Patterson's death. Legacy His son, James, would serve as vice president and assistant managing editor of the Daily News. One of Patterson's grandsons, Joseph Albright, was married to future US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for about 23 years. Patterson is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Family tree References Further reading Olmsted, Kathryn S. The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler (Yale UP, 2022)online also online review External links The Nickelodeons, an article written by Patterson and published in the November 23, 1907 issue of The Saturday Evening Post France, written by Patterson, from Great Poems of the World War, published in 1922 Photos of his grave in Arlington National Cemetery 1879 births 1946 deaths American male journalists Journalists from New York City Medill-Patterson family 20th-century American newspaper founders Businesspeople from Chicago Businesspeople from New York City Yale University alumni Burials at Arlington National Cemetery Old Right (United States) Republican Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives