Word: tankersley
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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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...
...publicity. Early last month. Columnist Drew Pearson charged, in a $3,100,000 damage suit, that the Times-Herald was in league with Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy and others to ruin him (TIME, March 12). Then a congressional investigating committee called Bazy, Assistant Managing Editor Garvin Tankersley, and other T-H staffers to Capitol Hill to explain why they published a composite picture showing Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings and Communist Earl Browder together (TIME, March...
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...
Senator Butler's campaign treasurer, Baltimore Attorney Cornelius P. Mundy, was one witness who disagreed with Tankersley. Said Mundy: the composite picture was "stupid, puerile and in bad taste...
...story material, and Times-Herald files most of the pictures. The composite, he said stoutly, was "not a fake . . . not a fraud." It was, he added with a straight face, just a happy answer to a problem of "space limitation." Assistant Managing Editor Garvin E. Tankersley, who had ordered the composite made, acknowledged that he was trying to "show that Mr. Tydings did treat Mr. Browder with kid gloves." Asked Oklahoma's Senator Mike Monroney: "You see nothing wrong in the composite?" Said Tankersley...