Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Part Good Fellowship. There was one point I wanted to clear up. "Why," I asked spinners in the plant canteen, "do you think America is doing this?" Answered Jan Missink, a wiry, blond fellow, seven members of whose family work for the company: "Americans really want to help us; they know that under the Russians we would be lost, as we were under the Germans." Said Berend Groote: "Yes, it is part self-interest and part sportief [good fellowship...
...President Truman (reported by Pearson to have made an anti-Semitic remark) : "I had thought I wouldn't have to add another liar's star to that fellow's crown, but I will have...
...contract, Pearson can be pretty sure of four more years as the world's second-best-paid newsman, and its second-most-widely-syndicated columnist. (The yip-yippity-yip of his frenetic friend Walter Winchell has 200 more outlets, and pays about $140,000 a year better.) His fellow journalists measure Pearson by a different yardstick. In 1944 Washington correspondents rated him at the top of the list in national influence. But in terms of "reliability, fairness, ability to analyze the news," they rated him tenth...
...object of all this billingsgate is a devoutly religious-and highly litigious-Quaker who has never been known to fire a shot, lift his fist, or even raise his soft voice in anger. Andrew Russell Pearson is a tall, tweedy, disarmingly mild-mannered fellow, with thinning light brown hair, a sparse mustache and earnest mien; he looks like a shy, quizzical cow college professor-except for his wary blue eyes. The mild manner camouflages a tough, diamond-hard core. And his casual clothes, his innocuously small-town look serve him well in Washington's lower echelons, where many...
...reliable conscience? Pearson's detractors would say no; his admirers would say yes. The majority on the sidelines would agree with his admirers-or how else, they would say, can we have freedom of the press? But editors-and the public-could wish that Pearson, and his fellow hip-shooting columnists, show more care in getting it right, rather than getting it first-and a greater sense of responsibility in deciding what is legitimate public news and what is mere troublemaking gossip...