Word: thackrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theodore Olin Thackrey used to be managing editor of the New York Post. Then he married his boss, Dorothy Schiff Backer, and became the co-publisher and co-editor. A fortnight ago, Co-Editor Thackrey dashed off "An Appeal to Reason," complaining of his irritation and dismay "at the intemperate and increasingly violent reaction to Henry Wallace's campaign...
Last week the boss, signing herself "Co-Publisher and Co-Editor," took Ted Thackrey's space to tell readers that her husband had been speaking only for himself, "not committing the Post Home News* to the support ... of Henry A. Wallace." And so far as sincere and reasoned grounds were concerned, "I, a sincere liberal, take issue with Mr. Thackrey's reasoning . . . 1) because Mr. Wallace's own position is not always clear and because he, himself, does not always give the impression of being a sincere and reasoned person ... 2) the Progressive Party is Communist-dominated...
...Dorothy Schiff Hall Backer Thackrey, Post publisher...
...Hollywood was now almost knee-deep in TV. Warner Brothers closed a $1,000,000 deal (contingent on the FCC's sanction) with New York Post Publisher Dorothy Thackrey to buy her two West Coast radio stations and a precious Los Angeles TV permit. Paramount already owns two stations, is bidding against 20th Century-Fox for a San Francisco channel. Twentieth Century-Fox announced that it will now also produce films specially for television. Only two major studios (MGM, RKO Radio) still hang back. "The whole industry," said one film maker, "is either jumping or jumpy...
...service on the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine turned him into an author (Behind the Silken Curtain); he is now an ardent advocate of partition. In moving to Manhattan, he will give up, among other things, the presidency of two radio stations owned by Ted and Dorothy Thackrey, owners of the New York Post...