Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...News Columnist Drew Pearson wrote last week that Atomic Energy Commission meetings, once enlivened by "fascinating philosophical discussions" on the future of atomic power, now are "ice cold, stiff and edgy." The reason, reported Pearson, is that AEChairman Lewis Strauss uses a recording machine at meetings, and his security officers have clamped taps on the telephone wires of other AEC members. The result, as Pearson saw it, produced fear-muffled commissioners, who are reluctant to voice opinions lest their words some day be turned against them...
...Army not to give Schine special treatment? Said Joe: the Army itself had, "on some instances," brought the Schine matter up. Another reason was that "the Communist liners started to loose their attack," charging McCarthy-Cohn intervention on Schine's behalf. The attacks, he recalled, came from Columnist Drew Pearson-"one of the greatest Communist-line smearers that I know"-and Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop...
...appearance on television, unless I am asked again when I am 80. Now I must go. My friends would celebrate because I am in my 76th year. A strange reason. I will celebrate, too. I won't be late. I am never late." -In a television interview with Columnist Drew Pearson, Adlai Stevenson confessed that G.O.P. foreign policy is a perplexing thing to him, often leaves him mulling over who's really running the State Department. "We sometimes wonder who the Secretary of State might be," he said. "I was going to say Secretary of State (William...
...years later a sub poem for his appearance was issued by the Un-American Activities committee and then withdrawn. In 1950 both the New York Dally News and columnist Fulton Lewis published articles repeating the spy charges against Glasser. As the Rutgers faculty committee which later reviewed the case pointed out, this long series of incidents apparently developed a feeling of harassment in Glasser's mind and a sharp antagonism toward investigative groups...
Commenting on this musical momism, the New York Herald Tribune's Radio & TV Columnist John Crosby wrote: "Sometimes, a man wonders . . . whether the women of this fair land are people or whether some other designation ought to be given them - say, plips - to distinguish them from the rest...