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...year later the Backers were divorced, and Dolly married her managing editor, Theodore Olin Thackrey. She bought the Bronx Home News, merged it with the Post, and promoted Ted Thackrey to co-publisher and co-editor. They turned out to be no smooth-working team. During the presidential campaign, they debated the candidates and issues in the editorial columns of the Post. Ted was all out for Wallace. Dolly, when she finally made her mind up, was for Dewey. (Staffers, in a letter to the editors, disagreed with both...
...ever earned the love of their people as has this man whose real name was Samuel Rabinowitz, and who chose to call himself Sholom Aleichem ("peace be unto you"). His stories, published in paper booklets, were passed from hand to hand among European Jews. When he died in The Bronx in 1916, more than 100,000 people lined the streets of his funeral procession. He had said: "Let me be buried among the poor, that their graves may shine on mine, and mine on theirs...
When, in a New York by-election, the Democrats were trounced by the Progressive Party's Leo Isacson in Boss Ed Flynn's own Bronx, panic swept the Democratic ranks. Politicos began to desert the Truman ship. Anybody but Truman was the cry. Through it all, the man from Missouri kept his own counsel, and laid his plans. When he was asked to withdraw, he retorted grimly: "I was not brought up to run from a fight...
Died. The Rev. John J. Wynne, S.J., 89, leading Jesuit scholar, founder and onetime editor of the famed Roman Catholic Encyclopedia (1903-14) and the Catholic weekly America (1909); in The Bronx...
...powerfully, and what top notes he couldn't sing he shouted. But Booth's burnoose could not disguise his lurching, hand-wringing acting. Like most Met stage lovers, he more often sang of his passion to Conductor Busch, at whom he stared fixedly, than to Desdemona. The Bronx's burly Leonard Warren couldn't have sung the role of lago with more splendor and imagination-or acted it with less. Soprano Licia Albanese, in her first Met Desdemona, was fine in her lyrical moments in the Willow Song and the magnificent Ave Maria...