Henry Doorly

[4] Beginning as a reporter for the Omaha World-Herald, Doorly failed miserably, retaining his job only because he was the publisher's daughter's fiancé.

Reflecting the changing nature of the major American political parties and Doorly's personal disenchantment with the New Deal in the 1930s, he implemented the newspaper's editorial page shift toward a Republican Party policy stance.

[6] In 1937, William Randolph Hearst sold Doorly the Bee-News, his main competitor in Omaha.

[9][10][11][12][13] Doorly retired from the paper in 1950[14] and from World Publishing in 1955, leaving control of both newspapers to Walter E.

[15] In 1963, his widow Margaret Hitchcock Doorly donated $750,000 (approximately $4.5 million in 2005 dollars) to the Omaha Zoological Society.