News for the News

In The Bronx County Courthouse one morning last week Supreme Court Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo heard an elderly couple plead for the setting aside of the three-day notice required for marriage in New York. Granting the plea and satisfied that the pleaders were not syphilitic --another legal requirement--Judge Cotillo married them. The couple: Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, 59, publisher of New York's tabloid Daily News, and Mary King, fiftyish, women's editor of the News and fiction editor of the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate.

Able Mary King began her successful newspaper career as assistant secretary to her husband's cousin, the late U. S. Senator Medill McCormick while he was publisher of the Chicago Tribune. Before getting her present post, she had been secretary of the Tribune's Sunday department, assistant Sunday editor, Sunday editor, women's editor of Liberty when it was owned by the McCormick-Patterson interests. She and Publisher Patterson are old, old friends. Three of her four broth ers fought through the World War in the 149th Field Artillery of the 42nd (Rain bow) Division, in which her husband was a captain. By his first wife, Mrs. Alice Higinbotham Patterson, who divorced him five weeks ago, Bridegroom Patterson has four children: Elinor, Alicia, Josephine, James.

Like the story of his divorce (TIME, June 20), Publisher Patterson's marriage was news for the News. On page four was a half-column story. On the picture page was a photo of the coy couple taken by a News photographer on the Queen Mary before they sailed for a honeymoon in Ireland, Scotland, Wales.

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