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...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...
...bought into the Post in 1939, took over as publisher in 1942. Circulationwise it has remained a weak sister in her hands, trailed among Manhattan's afternoon dailies only by Field's P.M. But guided by her shrewd husband, Editor Theodore Olin Thackrey, a Postman for eight years before he married his boss, she turned the paper into a tabloid, upped the price from 3? to 5?, and (though she campaigned for the New Deal) made money...
After that, Dolly Thackrey reached out. She snapped up some of the Chicago Daily News's once famed foreign staff, expanded the Post's foreign coverage and started a syndicate. She bought Brooklyn's tiny radio station WLIB and the Bronx Home News, a neighborhood paper that concentrates on marriages and bingo parties. She tried and failed to buy the San Francisco Chronicle, then as a consolation prize bought two radio stations, Los Angeles' KMTR and San Francisco's KYA (FCC approval of the purchases is pending...
Somehow the job was done. The New York Herald Tribune's Paris edition was no longer alone in its field. And another little piece in Dolly Thackrey's dream had been fitted into place...