"The Daily Compass", which included the weekend "Sunday Compass", was a 1949-1952 successor to the leftist New York City newspaper "PM", published from June 1940 to June 22, 1948, and that paper's first successor, the "New York Star", published from June 23, 1948, to January 28, 1949.Ted Thackrey — the features editor of the "New York Post" before marrying "Post" owner Dorothy Schiff in 1943, after which the two became co-publishers/co-editors — had become solo publisher of the "Post", at the behest of his wife, for a disastrous three months.