Word: tankersley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maxwell, 54, managing editor; J. Howard Wood, 54, business manager. They will also be trustees of the McCormick-Patterson Trust, which holds most of the Trib stock, along with Arthur A. Schmon, president of the Trib's Canadian paper companies, and the Colonel's niece, Bazy Miller Tankersley, onetime editor of the Washington Times-Herald. (The Colonel feuded bitterly with her in his last days, but the terms of the McCormick-Patterson Trust automatically made her a trustee at his death...
...newspaperwoman." says Maryland McCormick. "Some people thought I would take a bigger hand in things, but I just don't want it." The Colonel did spot an heir way down on the family tree. In his will he asked that seven-year-old Mark McCormick Miller, Bazy Tankersley's son by her first marriage, be "given an opportunity to be employed on the staff of the Chicago Tribune [to] carry on the great newspaper tradition of Joseph Medill...
When the colonel and Meyer were in agreement, the Trib board was called together to discuss Meyer's bid. There was a dissenting voice: Ruth ("Bazy") Miller Tankersley, the colonel's niece, who was forced out as editor of the TimesHerald three years ago because the colonel disapproved of the way she was running the paper as well as of her divorce and her interest in a T-H editor, whom she later married. Bazy Tankersley, shocked to hear that the paper was to be sold, asked time to try to raise money to buy the Times-Herald...
...colonel for time to raise more, he said "No, no, no." The colonel was determined to sell to Meyer because he respected him as a professional newspaperman. The colonel did not want to sell to "amateurs." The Trib board met again, approved the sale to the Post. Bazy Tankersley was so angered by her uncle's action in selling the paper that she said "I hope I never see him again," took big, black-bordered "sympathy" ads in the Star and News to express her bitter regret over the death...
Married. Ruth McCormick ("Bazy") Miller, 30, niece of Colonel Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick and editor of his Washington Times-Herald until she quit in a dispute over policy (TIME, April 16), and Garvin E. ("Tank") Tankersley, 39, former Times-Herald assistant managing editor who was first exiled to the Chicago Tribune, fired a couple of months later; both for the second time; at Al-Marah, Bazy's Montgomery County, Md. estate...