Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drew Pearson thumped the bongo drums for President Fulgencio Batista too fervently. In return, Havana's leading newspapers and magazines last week were busy thumping Pearson. "If Truman called Drew Pearson a liar," declared Mario Kuchilán in Prensa Libre, "he was being generous." Columnist José Pardo Llada, who once hailed Pearson as an "ideal commentator," wrote in Diario National: "Our illustrious friend Drew Pearson has defrauded us." So fulsome was Pearson's praise for the Batista regime that even a Batista booster, Diario National's Luis Manuel Martinez, objected. He called Pearson a "gringo...
Penthouse Reporting. In Havana, Pearson stayed in a luxurious penthouse placed at his disposal by Amadeo Barletta Jr., son of a rich Batista crony. The columnist visited Strongman Batista twice and was steered around town by Batista's American Pressagent Edmund Chester. Pundit Pearson irritated Cuban readers with his naive reporting and prize factual boners, e.g., Pearson wrote that Batista "once threw out Cuba's most hated dictator," although, as every Cuban schoolchild knows, Batista had nothing to do with Dictator Gerardo Machado's ouster in 1933. Quipped El Mundo Columnist Carlos Robreno: If Batista...
...President had legalized the Communist Party and won its support in the 1940 elections before finally outlawing the party. When Pearson wrote that "not even an armed sentry paced outside" the presidential palace-which is guarded night and day by up to six sentries in plain view-Diario National Columnist Luis Conte Aguero exploded: "Too ridiculous to comment." Although intensive security precautions are taken to protect Batista wherever he goes, Pearson wrote that the President "had no secret service" at a political rally in central Cuba, "literally fought his way . . . through a sea of admirers." Snorted El Mundo...
...Columnist Perez. The hardest blow was struck by Columnist Milton Guss in the English-language Havana Post, which usually carries Pearson's column. Instead, Guss introduced readers to "Don Perez,' famous Havana columnist, whose predictions are 98% correct-2% of the time." Wrote Guss...
...room." The Trib has been losing many of its top staffers and promising younger newsmen. City Editor Fendall Yerxa quit, to be replaced (TIME, May 30) by hard-boiled Luke Carroll, onetime Trib Chicago correspondent. Close to a dozen other staffers, including John ("Tex") O'Reilly, Trib nature columnist and former war correspondent, have also recently left. By far the biggest loss to the Trib will be felt later this month, when the news staff's brightest star, Correspondent Homer Bigart, 47, two-time (1946, 1951) Pulitzer Prizewinner, moves over to the New York Times. Bigart...