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This month, with Newsday hitting the street on clockwork schedule, Miz Patterson will sail for Europe and a spell of reporting. With her will go her friend, Publisher Dorothy Thackrey of the New Dealing, pro-Zionist New York Post. Alicia has plenty of plans to keep her busy when she gets back. The Guggenheims are going into radio at Bridgeport, Conn., and some day Alicia would like to surround New York City with Newsdays in Westchester and New Jersey. "There are a few papers here & there," she says with a predatory glint, "that I'd like to compete with...
Theodore Olin Thackrey used to be managing editor of the New York Post. Then he married his boss, Dorothy Schiff Backer, and became the co-publisher and co-editor. A fortnight ago, Co-Editor Thackrey dashed off "An Appeal to Reason," complaining of his irritation and dismay "at the intemperate and increasingly violent reaction to Henry Wallace's campaign...
Last week the boss, signing herself "Co-Publisher and Co-Editor," took Ted Thackrey's space to tell readers that her husband had been speaking only for himself, "not committing the Post Home News* to the support ... of Henry A. Wallace." And so far as sincere and reasoned grounds were concerned, "I, a sincere liberal, take issue with Mr. Thackrey's reasoning . . . 1) because Mr. Wallace's own position is not always clear and because he, himself, does not always give the impression of being a sincere and reasoned person ... 2) the Progressive Party is Communist-dominated...
...Editor Thackrey promised to answer Co-Editor Thackrey a week later. In the meantime, readers were left to wonder why the Thackreys couldn't settle their arguments at the breakfast table...
...Dorothy Schiff Hall Backer Thackrey, Post publisher...