Daughter of Cullen Van Rensselaer Cogswell, a Manhattan socialite. Second wife of Sigourney Thayer. She was a society columnist for the New York Journal, and wrote under the house pseudonym "Madame Flutterby", covering the Lindbergh kidnapping. She wrote the first biography of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, published by Doubleday in 1961.
Mrs. Thayer was known as "Molly" to her friends in Washington and as "Miss Molly" to her admirers in the royal families of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and elsewhere. In the 1930s, she was a society columnist for the Hearst newspapers in New York and there she was known as "Madame Flutterby." She also was a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserves, the first woman to ride in an Air Force jet trainer, and one of the few western correspondents reporting from Eastern Europe immediately after World War II.
She moved to Washington during World War II and worked for Nelson Rockefeller, then the coordinator for Inter-American Affairs at the State Department. In 1945, she was accredited to the Potsdam conference and remained in Eastern Europe after the war.
She joined The Post in 1948 and was a regular member of the staff until 1950. She was the Washington representative of the Magnum picture agency until she retired in the early 1970s. Through these years she continued to write.
Survivors include her daughter, Eugenie Rahim of Vienna, Austria, and three grandchildren.
Mrs. Thayer was known as "Molly" to her friends in Washington and as "Miss Molly" to her admirers in the royal families of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and elsewhere. In the 1930s, she was a society columnist for the Hearst newspapers in New York and there she was known as "Madame Flutterby." She also was a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserves, the first woman to ride in an Air Force jet trainer, and one of the few western correspondents reporting from Eastern Europe immediately after World War II.
She moved to Washington during World War II and worked for Nelson Rockefeller, then the coordinator for Inter-American Affairs at the State Department. In 1945, she was accredited to the Potsdam conference and remained in Eastern Europe after the war.
She joined The Post in 1948 and was a regular member of the staff until 1950. She was the Washington representative of the Magnum picture agency until she retired in the early 1970s. Through these years she continued to write.
Survivors include her daughter, Eugenie Rahim of Vienna, Austria, and three grandchildren.
Daughter of Cullen Van Rensselaer Cogswell, a Manhattan socialite. Second wife of Sigourney Thayer. She was a society columnist for the New York Journal, and wrote under the house pseudonym "Madame Flutterby", covering the Lindbergh kidnapping. She wrote the first biography of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, published by Doubleday in 1961.
Mrs. Thayer was known as "Molly" to her friends in Washington and as "Miss Molly" to her admirers in the royal families of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and elsewhere. In the 1930s, she was a society columnist for the Hearst newspapers in New York and there she was known as "Madame Flutterby." She also was a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserves, the first woman to ride in an Air Force jet trainer, and one of the few western correspondents reporting from Eastern Europe immediately after World War II.
She moved to Washington during World War II and worked for Nelson Rockefeller, then the coordinator for Inter-American Affairs at the State Department. In 1945, she was accredited to the Potsdam conference and remained in Eastern Europe after the war.
She joined The Post in 1948 and was a regular member of the staff until 1950. She was the Washington representative of the Magnum picture agency until she retired in the early 1970s. Through these years she continued to write.
Survivors include her daughter, Eugenie Rahim of Vienna, Austria, and three grandchildren.
Mrs. Thayer was known as "Molly" to her friends in Washington and as "Miss Molly" to her admirers in the royal families of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and elsewhere. In the 1930s, she was a society columnist for the Hearst newspapers in New York and there she was known as "Madame Flutterby." She also was a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserves, the first woman to ride in an Air Force jet trainer, and one of the few western correspondents reporting from Eastern Europe immediately after World War II.
She moved to Washington during World War II and worked for Nelson Rockefeller, then the coordinator for Inter-American Affairs at the State Department. In 1945, she was accredited to the Potsdam conference and remained in Eastern Europe after the war.
She joined The Post in 1948 and was a regular member of the staff until 1950. She was the Washington representative of the Magnum picture agency until she retired in the early 1970s. Through these years she continued to write.
Survivors include her daughter, Eugenie Rahim of Vienna, Austria, and three grandchildren.
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