Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fair-Dealing Columnist DORIS FLEESON...
...news tip came to Los Angeles' Mirror-News Columnist Paul V. Coates on Christmas Eve. In Riverside, Calif., Coates was told, a prisoner had been in jail for twelve days. Reason for the prisoner's arrest, as stated in the official record: he was "in danger of leading a lewd and immoral life." Age of the prisoner: seven...
...series of telephone calls, Columnist Coates learned that the child, Larry, whose last name had been kept secret by juvenile authorities, was the son of a quiet, respectable couple living in nearby Eagle Mountain, a 150-house company town where iron ore is mined for Henry Kaiser's Fontana steel mill. To Columnist Coates, the charges against Larry seemed no worse than the offenses of thousands of other curious youngsters of his age. He had, said the record, placed his hands under the dress of a little girl, aged five. Why had he been jailed? The authorities said that...
...talked to the boy's teacher, who said that he was just "a normal, average kid." He talked to the townspeople and found them a decent lot, who had even taken up a collection to help Larry's father pay legal expenses. A day later, when Columnist Coates presented the parents on his TV show, the reaction was instantaneous: shocked viewers flooded the station with 700 phone calls, 1,000 letters and several petitions, copies of which had been sent to the State Capitol at Sacramento. California's Governor Goodwin Knight even called Riverside to find...
Washington focused a lively interest last week on Oregon's Senators. Freshman Dick Neuberger flew in, after lunching in Chicago with Adlai Stevenson, to be festively entertained by Fair-Dealing Columnist Doris Fleeson and, on New Year's Day, by Colleague Wayne Morse. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, recognizing that Democrats owe Morse their control of the Senate, will give him committee posts as good as or better than the ones from which the Republicans ousted him two years ago. And following his policy of finding at least one good committee berth for each newcomer. Johnson has Neuberger...