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...tired of the hurly-burly of putting out a daily newspaper; she wanted to quit. Ted still had his ambition, but he seemed to have changed his politics. Dolly Thackrey got the impression that he was no longer a Wallaceite but a "liberal democrat" who would support Truman's Fair Deal program. That was assurance enough for Dolly Thackrey; they made a deal by which Ted could finally own the paper if he made a go of running it right...
...moved out of the Thackrey penthouse; Dolly Thackrey moved out of her penthouse office in the Post. As sole editor & publisher, Ted Thackrey had three months to put the paper in the black (it was losing more than $10,000 a week). If he succeeded, he would be allowed to buy his wife out, paying her out of profits...
...Disturbing Sound. Thackrey sliced 43 names off the swollen editorial payroll (250), pared production costs, boosted circulation by 20,000 to a 370,000 high. In three months, the Post started to make money. But as the Post moved into the black, Mrs. Thackrey was increasingly disturbed by the way Thackrey's editorials moved toward the Red line. Instead of being a "liberal democratic" spokesman, the Post was editorially pro-Wallace and anti-Marshall Plan, critical of U.S. policy and sympathetic to Soviet policy. Thackrey spoke at the pro-Soviet Waldorf-Astoria Cultural Conference (TIME, April 4), and printed...
Last week Owner Dolly lowered the boom on Editor Ted. Said Thackrey: "I was given the choice of supporting the Atlantic pact or resigning. I resigned." What Ted meant was that his estranged wife had fired him. As she resumed the title of publisher, Dolly explained in a Post editorial: "Irreconcilable differences on fundamental questions . . ." (Lamented the Daily Worker: "Mrs. Thackrey purged Mr. Thackrey . . . because he won't say 'yes' to an atomic war with the Soviet Union...
...Sink. Under Publisher Dolly Thackrey and big, white-haired Executive Editor Paul Tierney, 54, the Post would once again be "liberal democratic." It would also have to pay its own way because Mrs. Thackrey had sunk all she could into the paper...