Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denver airport, a nosy reporter cornered lanky Cinemactor James Stewart, about to board a plane for Hollywood with Traveling Companion Mrs. Gloria Hatrick McLean. Prodded about marriage rumors, Stewart said: "Well, I'm not going to get married." "To Mrs. McLean?" "No, I'm just not going to get married...
...Disturbing Sound. Thackrey sliced 43 names off the swollen editorial payroll (250), pared production costs, boosted circulation by 20,000 to a 370,000 high. In three months, the Post started to make money. But as the Post moved into the black, Mrs. Thackrey was increasingly disturbed by the way Thackrey's editorials moved toward the Red line. Instead of being a "liberal democratic" spokesman, the Post was editorially pro-Wallace and anti-Marshall Plan, critical of U.S. policy and sympathetic to Soviet policy. Thackrey spoke at the pro-Soviet Waldorf-Astoria Cultural Conference (TIME, April 4), and printed...
...Said Thackrey: "I was given the choice of supporting the Atlantic pact or resigning. I resigned." What Ted meant was that his estranged wife had fired him. As she resumed the title of publisher, Dolly explained in a Post editorial: "Irreconcilable differences on fundamental questions . . ." (Lamented the Daily Worker: "Mrs. Thackrey purged Mr. Thackrey . . . because he won't say 'yes' to an atomic war with the Soviet Union...
...Sink. Under Publisher Dolly Thackrey and big, white-haired Executive Editor Paul Tierney, 54, the Post would once again be "liberal democratic." It would also have to pay its own way because Mrs. Thackrey had sunk all she could into the paper...
...nearby garage, bound his feet and set fire to him. By the time his mother had smothered the flames, 70% of Mike's sturdy little body was deeply scarred. At Washington's Casualty Hospital, Chief Surgeon Joseph Rogers Young took one look and told Mrs. Rector that her son probably could not live until morning...