Word: anderson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DIED. Louise Smith, 89, scrappy stock-car racer of the 1940s and '50s and the first woman to be inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame; in Anderson, S.C. In 1946 her reputation as a teenage daredevil in her hometown of Greenville, S.C., led Bill France, who co-founded NASCAR the next year, to recruit her as a draw for fans in a local race. Before retiring in 1956 at the urging of her husband--whose brand-new Ford she had totaled in a 1947 race--Smith won 38 events in various classes. "I was just born...
Investigative reporter Jack Anderson made a 50-year career of annoying officialdom. President Nixon put him near the top of his enemies list, prompting a wry and very Andersonian response: "Maybe it was alphabetical." With characteristic restraint, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the columnist was "lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures." But Anderson has now performed a feat of Mau-Mauing perhaps unique among all muckrakers: he is irritating the government from the grave. You see, Anderson died four months...
...February the FBI contacted Anderson's family to request that agents be allowed to search his files for any classified documents. The bureau says any such papers in the 187 boxes of old material belong to the Federal Government and not to Anderson's heirs, who currently have them, or to George Washington University (G.W.U.), where they're headed to be cataloged and stored. Kevin Anderson, one of the reporter's nine children, says the family was willing to cooperate with the FBI until agents made clear that they wanted to review every document and pull any they believed were...
...they got a tip early this year that secret papers were in the boxes. They say the tip was confirmed when Mark Feldstein, a G.W.U. professor writing an Anderson biography, told agents that "he has seen what he believed to be classified documents," says Joseph Persichini, head of the FBI's Washington field office. Feldstein denies that, saying he instead told the agents that he recalled seeing no plainly classified material among the yellowed pages, stained by rusty paper clips. "I was disappointed that there weren't any smoking-gun secret documents," says Feldstein. The lone once classified document...
...tough for today's 24/7 Drudge-CNN-Huffington Post grazers to understand the journalistic wallop that Anderson's "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column packed in its heyday. Appearing in close to 1,000 U.S. newspapers a generation ago, Anderson drew readers with his decades of scoops: he reported Washington's tilt away from India and toward Pakistan (it earned him a 1972 Pulitzer). He established a link between the Nixon Justice Department's settling of an antitrust case against ITT and the conglomerate's $400,000 pledge to the 1972 Republican Convention. He revealed key elements of the Reagan Administration...