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...publisher is a woman, but a businesswoman. In her penthouse office atop the 16-story New York Post building, dark-haired, blue-eyed Dorothy Schiff Hall Backer Thackrey dreams of a publishing empire. Marshall Field, with the fertilizing help of a $168,000,000 fortune, has cultivated a large journalistic garden. Publisher Thackrey hasn't got that much fertilizer-some $15 million inherited from her late father, Banker Mortimer Schiff-but she is determined to do what she can with it. Last week, she reached all the way to Paris and added a brand-new paper to her little...
Uptown & Cross-Country. The keystone of Dorothy Thackrey's enterprises is the 144-year-old New York Post, which William Cullen Bryant once edited. The paper was a consistent money loser from...
...from-formidable Post, which was turned down recently when it tried to buy the San Francisco Chronicle, yearns to invade the Golden Gate newspaper field. Despite its small Manhattan circulation (207,524), the Post has big money behind it: Owner-publisher Dorothy Schiff Hall Backer Thackrey is the granddaughter of the late Wall Street Banker Jacob Schiff...
Post Editor Ted O. Thackrey (whose wife is the boss) explained the reasoning behind the Post's conference special: "With only the two Hearst papers, a Scripps-Howard paper and a Chronicle in town, delegates would get essentially a very conservative view. We think they need the Post's type of reporting...
...other target was hit even harder. Columnist Mowrer had accused the Vatican of "supporting fascism against democracy" before the war, and wanted to know the future political designs of U.S. Roman Catholics. Such language, said Thackrey, who had printed it, was "intolerant . . . designed to insult his fellow Americans of the Roman Catholic faith." It was "stupid . . . Ku Klux Klanism, and worse. . . . No conscious fascist could have phrased it better." At week's end Mowrer had not chosen to reply in print. Said he: "Of course I could go down and talk it out with Thackrey, but my tailor hasn...