Temporary Invasion?

Two New York newspapers, the good, grey Times and the New Dealing tabloid Post, last week made plans to publish special San Francisco editions during the United Nations conference. The Times was considering a radio-sent facsimile edition for delegates only; the Post planned a 16-page daily tabloid, to be printed in San Francisco.

Oddly, it was the Post's ambitions which most worried San Francisco papers. The formidable Times could be relied upon to come & go. But the far-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."

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