Word: thackreys
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Divorced. By Dorothy Schiff Thackrey, 46, owner-publisher of the New Dealing New York Post Home News (circ. 374,706): third husband Theodore Olin Thackrey, 47, editor and publisher of the party-lining New York Daily Compass (circ. about 50,000) ; after six years of marriage, no children; in Gooding, Idaho...
After firing her estranged husband Ted Thackrey in April, Publisher Dorothy Schiff* decided that in the editor's chair the Post Home News needed a working newsman who was a liberal with a clear anti-Communist record. Crusading Jimmy Wechsler seemed to be just the man. A onetime Nation assistant editor, Wechsler was on the original staff of the late tabloid PM, later its national affairs editor and Washington chief. In 1946, in protest against the paper's editorial Redlining, he chucked his job and went over to the Post. A graduate of Columbia...
...Woman's Causes. The angel who backed Ted Thackrey's new start in journalism is 82-year-old Mrs. Emmons Blaine, a strong-willed Chicago philanthropist who bought full-page ads in her Cousin Bertie McCormick's Tribune to plump for Roosevelt in '36, '40 and '44, when the Trib was denouncing him. Daughter of Reaper King Cyrus McCormick and heiress to his millions, "Aunt Anita" Elaine is the daughter-in-law of James G. ("Rum, Romanism and Rebellion") Elaine. She lives in a cavernous house on East Erie Street, is rarely seen...
...World. Ted Thackrey met Mrs. Elaine for the first time about three weeks ago, through a mutual friend who intended to put up half the money for the Compass. When the friend backed out, Mrs. Elaine coolly agreed to put up both halves. For around $2,000,000 she will get all the preferred stock; Thackrey will hold 51% of the common, and complete control...
...purpose," said Aunt Anita last week in a voice without a quaver, "is to help create a better world state. You have only to think of the need for this thing . . . look at the press of the world today . . ." Said Thackrey earnestly: "We are not going to lose money." But if he did there would be more where his grubstake came from...