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...comfortably into the Post's political frame: New Dealism. Even so, the Post last week found the opinions of two of its top columnists, Dorothy Thompson and Edgar Ansel Mowrer, more than it could bear. The offending pair were thereupon taken to task by Post Editor Ted O. Thackrey. In a hotly phrased, 1,000-word, two-column blast, Editor Thackrey wrote with the air of a man asking himself: is this what I have been publishing...
...several weeks, said Editor Thackrey, he had given her "space for her verbal tears of compassion for the ordinary Germans," although her views were "repugnant." Now Editor Thackrey baldly questioned her credentials as an expert: "Miss Thompson persuaded us once before . . . that Hitlerism would never be accepted by the German people...
Replied Miss Thompson, in effect: Editor Thackrey doesn't know a straddle when he sees one. Said she: "In the article referred to, written in 1931, I weighed the pros and cons . . . and threw the weight of my argument against the probability of Hitler obtaining a parliamentary majority. But in the concluding sentence of the article, I again left the question open...
Married. Dorothy Schiff Hall Backer, 39, owner and publisher of New York's pale pink Post; and Theodore Olin Thackrey, 42, the Post's editor since 1942; each for the third time; a week after she divorced former Post Publisher George Backer; in Manhattan...
Columnist F(ranklin) P(ierce) A(dams)-better known to plain citizens as the beaky, saturnine wit of Information Please-one day last week kept a rendezvous with his boss, New York Post Editor Ted Thackrey, to talk things over. "Well," asked F. P. A., "am I fired?" Editor Thackrey suggested a less callous formulation: F. P. A. might prefer to resign. But F. P. A. preferred to be fired...