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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...
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...
Colonel McCormick was also displeased last January when Bazy divorced her husband, Maxwell Peter Miller (who got her profitable La Salle, 111. News Tribune and a radio station as part of the settlement). Shortly afterward, all-knowing Bertie whisked handsome Garvin Tankersley to Chicago to work in the Trib's Sunday section. Last week when Bazy quit, Tankersley was summoned "upstairs" at the Trib, then left "on extended vacation." Asked if she was planning to remarry, Bazy replied: "No-not Mr. Tankersley or Joe McCarthy or any of a half dozen other men whose names have been mentioned with...