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...dust. For four weeks, pudgy Theodore Olin Thackrey, ousted by his estranged wife Dolly from the New York Post Home News (TIME, April 18), had been an editor without a mouthpiece. Last week a way was found to employ both editor and presses. With money furnished by a generous backer, Ted Thackrey bought the Star's equipment, prepared to launch a new 10? morning tabloid in New York City next week. Its name: the Compass...
Journalist Thackrey was executive editor of the New York Post when he married his boss, Publisher Dorothy Backer, in 1943. Four years later, Theodore Olin Thackrey became co-editor, and with Co-Editor Dorothy Thackrey he ran the Post Home News. But the husband & wife team didn't get along very well. During the election, when Ted was for Wallace and Dolly for Dewey, they quarreled publicly in the Post, and privately in their penthouse apartment. The argument did not end with the election, and in January Dolly Thackrey had a heart-to-heart talk with her husband...
...Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians, peacefully packing their instruments after rehearsal, gave a startled gasp. Across the stage, bellowing like a Straussian tuba, rushed Henry H. Reichhold, the terrible-tempered industrialist (Reichhold Chemicals, Inc.) and chief financial backer of the orchestra. His shouts were directed at First Cellist Georges Miquelle for "disloyalty." Miquelle left, but his leaving snapped an old and mounting tension...
Finance. When stockholders brought a bankruptcy suit against the Tucker Corp., President Preston Tucker won 60 days to produce financial backing from an unnamed "angel." Last week Tucker reported that the backer had backed out. But, he said, five others-including "an Eastern syndicate, a West Coast syndicate, two big companies and an internationally known banker"-were interested. Chicago's Federal Judge Michael L. Igoe said he didn't "have the least bit of confidence in [Tucker's] statements," but he gave him until March 3 to put up the cash or close down his shop...
...Lucky Stiff (Amusement Enterprises; United Artists) features that rather shady lawyer-detective named John J. Malone who figures prominently in a number of Craig Rice whodunits. It is also the not-too-promising debut of radio's Jack Benny as a movie producer (and financial backer...