Word: thackrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theodore O. Thackrey, onetime editor of the New York Post, ran into difficulties with the haulers in his attempt to publish a new tabloid, the left-wing Compass. Referred to an ex-convict (bail jumping, dope peddling) named Irving Bitz, Thackrey paid Bitz $10.000-half what Bitz demanded-for a trouble-free contract with the Deliverers. After collecting the money, Bitz introduced Thackrey to Joseph Simons, then president of the Deliverers' union. The Compass died three years later, but it had no trouble with Simons' union...
These public apologias told only part of the story. Publisher Schiff, who subscribes to the philosophy that politics is an affair of the heart, has lost her heart before in the pages of her paper. In 1948, when Editor Theodore O. Thackrey, who was also Publisher Schiff's husband (her third of four), endorsed Henry Agard Wallace for President, his wife quarreled in print for twelve weeks over his choice, wound up by endorsing Republican Thomas Dewey, firing Ted Thackrey in his capacity as editor and divorcing him in his capacity as spouse...
...Died. Vice Admiral Lyman A. Thackrey, 57, former chairman of the Joint Amphibious Board. World War II senior U.S. naval planner for the Normandy landings, commander of Amphibious Group 3 in the 1950-51 landings at Inchon and Iwon in Korea; of cancer; in San Diego...
...fourth marriage. The first three, to Richard B. W. Hall, George Backer and Ted Thackrey, ended in divorce...
...standing, not even Wechsler, was arguing that he was a member of a privileged profession. The press has not objected to congressional investigation in the past (TIME, Feb. 4, 1952). especially since journalism has had its share of Communist infiltration. The Post's editorials, under Editor Ted Thackrey, later editor of the now-defunct pinko Manhattan Compass, had followed the party line intermittently, and the paper still has its share of ex-Communists and onetime fel low travelers on its staff. But it was under Editor Wechsler that the Post became consistently antiCommunist...