Word: thackrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grateful affection, correct his story that I started my own news-letter because I was "tired of researching news that city editors wouldn't print." On the contrary I started my Weekly as a last resort after the New York Daily Compass closed because for years under Ted O. Thackrey, the late John P. Lewis, Ralph Ingersoll, Freda Kirchwey, J. David Stern and Harry T. Saylor I enjoyed a quarter century of such freedom and old-fashioned crusading journalism that I was spoiled for anything else. Brackman's account may be excused as the triumph of novelistic libido over reportorial...
...bond racket that S. F. Porter exposed, Sylvia showed such flair that the Post ultimately decided her sex had become an asset. "I believe very definitely that the time has come for us to make capital of the fact that S. F. Porter is a woman," wrote T. O. Thackrey, then editor of the Post, in a 1942 memo to the staff. The public unveiling-a full byline accompanied by a winsome half-column photograph-brought an odd sort of celebrity: one longtime column correspondent moodily addressed his next letter to "Darling" instead of "Dear Mr. Porter." From...