Word: thackreys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year later the Backers were divorced, and Dolly married her managing editor, Theodore Olin Thackrey. She bought the Bronx Home News, merged it with the Post, and promoted Ted Thackrey to co-publisher and co-editor. They turned out to be no smooth-working team. During the presidential campaign, they debated the candidates and issues in the editorial columns of the Post. Ted was all out for Wallace. Dolly, when she finally made her mind up, was for Dewey. (Staffers, in a letter to the editors, disagreed with both...
...arguments, apparently, did not end with the election. Last week Co-Publisher and Co-Editor Dorothy Thackrey abruptly resigned both jobs. Ted Thackrey became boss of the paper and president of the publishing corporation. Dolly Thackrey's 154-word statement explained only that her original purpose-starting "a militant liberal" newspaper in New York City-"has been fulfilled." The Post Home News's circulation (350,000) was bigger than when she took over, and the newspaper (then losing $100,000 a year) was now reportedly breaking even. Friends suspected that there were other reasons: that Dorothy Thackrey somehow...
...twelve tedious weeks, the New York Post Home News belabored its readers with an exhausting, antiphonal series called "An Appeal to Reason." One of the alternate authors was Co-Editor and Co-Publisher T. O. ("Ted") Thackrey, who was for Henry Wallace; Co-Editor and Co-Publisher Dorothy S. ("Dolly") Thackrey (who is also the owner) was for Tom Dewey. Last week the Thackreys outdid themselves. In a four-page election supplement, readers were not only told which local candidates the Post Home News favored, but which ones the Thackreys disagreed on. Example: Thackrey favored Communist Simon W. Gerson...
This month, with Newsday hitting the street on clockwork schedule, Miz Patterson will sail for Europe and a spell of reporting. With her will go her friend, Publisher Dorothy Thackrey of the New Dealing, pro-Zionist New York Post. Alicia has plenty of plans to keep her busy when she gets back. The Guggenheims are going into radio at Bridgeport, Conn., and some day Alicia would like to surround New York City with Newsdays in Westchester and New Jersey. "There are a few papers here & there," she says with a predatory glint, "that I'd like to compete with...
...Editor Thackrey promised to answer Co-Editor Thackrey a week later. In the meantime, readers were left to wonder why the Thackreys couldn't settle their arguments at the breakfast table...