Word: editor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. By Dorothy Schiff Thackrey, 46, owner-publisher of the New Dealing New York Post Home News (circ. 374,706): third husband Theodore Olin Thackrey, 47, editor and publisher of the party-lining New York Daily Compass (circ. about 50,000) ; after six years of marriage, no children; in Gooding, Idaho...
With something more than his customary charity, Columnist Pegler conceded that this lapse was not all her fault: "In Atlanta, she was ... under the influence of an unwise, emotional apologist, Ralph McGill, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, an insensate Roosevelt-lover who undoubtedly had swayed many inferior minds . . . and deprived others...
Unemotional Editor McGill ran the Pegler column in its usual space, appended a tolerant editorial note: "We often get a bang out of some of Mr. Pegler's strange obsessions . . . Somehow it was not at all surprising to find him . . . using [Miss Mitchell's] death as a vehicle for rebuking the Roosevelts. We knew [her] well enough to know she made up her own mind . . . Certainly she would not [have been] swayed by the influence of an unwise, emotional Westbrook Pegler, an insensate Roosevelt-hater, whose column [may] have swayed and-deprived inferior minds...
...Managing Editor Joe Parham of the Macon (Ga.) News (circ. 14,773) thought he knew what the "Newspaper of the Future" would look like: departmentalized news (like a newsmagazine), and no newspaper-style headlines. Fortnight ago, for one edition only, Parham decided to let his readers peer into the future. The eight-page issue (price: 5? ) carried the news in seven departments (Local, State, National, Foreign, Sports, Markets, Life), topped stories in each department with drab, label-style heads (e.g., BRITAIN COAL STRIKE). Instead of the usual 24 stories on Page One, the News crowded...
...young (27) editor of the Memphis Press, Leech wrote a fiery editorial ("The Shame of It All") blasting Boss Crump's political machine, and accusing local judges of whitewashing Crump election frauds. Sentenced to ten days for contempt of court, Leech was escorted to jail by a brass band. Half an hour later, he was pounding out a story on a typewriter in his cell-first of a ten-day series called "Jailed." Admirers sent Leech a well-stocked refrigerator, fresh linen, flowers and cigars, and a faithful reader brought her daughter to recite the Declaration of Independence...