Word: thackreys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dorothy Schiff Thackrey has plenty of money (about $8 million) and plenty of mother instinct. In 1939 she had enough of both left over, after amply providing for her own three children, to adopt the undernourished little New York Post (1938 loss: about $1,000,000). In five years she had fed it (mainly with columnists) into a fat, sassy brat (1944 profit: $300,000). "And now," she announced last week, "I have another sick baby...
...demanded at least that much attention. It had all the standard problems of any independent-the unequal struggle with networks for talent, sponsors and listeners-plus the competition of New York's ten other independents. And Manager Thackrey had made an uphill fight steeper by adopting a principle which most radiomen consider a contradiction in terms: "I want to make the station pay, and still make it do a real public service." But she also had advantages which few independent radiomen could match: practically unlimited cash and connections...
...emphasis," Mrs. Thackrey says, "will be on programs with some real intellectual insides. I know nobody has ever listened to them. But I think they would if such things were done really well and with some showmanship. We're going to concentrate on that. The sponsors will come along when people start to listen. Why, in a year we'll be right back in the black...
...social secretary. He had pumped $15 million into the ailing Trib before she started showing up for work at the office in 1918, and gradually took over. She is one of three women who run major U.S. newspapers. The others: the New York Post's Dorothy Schiff Thackrey, the Washington Times-Herald's terrible-tempered Cissie Patterson...
Come Work with Me. Young (33), puckish Correspondent Sam Boal had come up through a succession of routine newspaper jobs. Back from a wartime OWI assignment, he was sounding off about bad foreign-news coverage at a Manhattan cocktail party. The Post's Editor Ted Thackrey heard him, said: "If you're so damn good, come down and work for me." That was a year and a half ago. Now Thackrey calls Boal "one of the best men we have," gives him a free hand and $250 a week (including expenses). But Sam Boal is glad to give...