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...upon to come & go. But the far-from-formidable Post, which was turned down recently when it tried to buy the San Francisco Chronicle, yearns to invade the Golden Gate newspaper field. Despite its small Manhattan circulation (207,524), the Post has big money behind it: Owner-publisher Dorothy Schiff Hall Backer Thackrey is the granddaughter of the late Wall Street Banker Jacob Schiff...
...annual Yale-Harvard chess match held in New York December 23 for the Belden-Stevens trophy, resulted in a 2 to 2 tie. Lone victor was Raymond R. Schiff 47. Alan N. Alpern '48, and Marshall N. Rosenbluth of the V-12 tied, while Henry H. Nattens '47, lost...
When a group including Isidor Straus (R. H. Macy & Co.) and Jacob Henry Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.) set up the Alliance in 1893, the main purpose was to Americanize the immigrant stream inundating New York City. In 1924 the Johnson Act dammed the stream and today the Americanization job is largely done. The worst slums have gone...
Married. Dorothy Schiff Hall Backer, 39, owner and publisher of New York's pale pink Post; and Theodore Olin Thackrey, 42, the Post's editor since 1942; each for the third time; a week after she divorced former Post Publisher George Backer; in Manhattan...
...Senate, however, several of those in the Senate and in the press who last year were isolationists took up the cudgels for Senator Walsh. Missouri's Bennett Clark demanded an immediate Senate investigation of "the old hussy who runs the New York Post" (38-year-old Dorothy Schiff Backer). Senators Wheeler and Nye denounced the Post's exposé as a "diabolical attempt" to smear all isolationists. Senator Nye said he knew for a fact that "a secret society" had been operating for two years to gather smear material...