Word: fleeson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve years. Three nights later, Ike wined & dined 21 prominent men at the seventh of his stag dinners for U.S. leaders-and landed in a hassle with an angry newshen who thought he was being unfair to women. At his press conference, the President was confronted by Columnist Doris Fleeson, who wanted to know why he hadn't invited any prominent women to dinner. "How do you square that with your anti-discrimination program?" she demanded. Well, said Ike, he had tried to give two or three dinners for women, but he had been told that he had better...
...Columnist Doris Fleeson: "It was an attractive performance . . . What he said and how he said it will help...
...likely to be busy for dinner almost every night, and never miss having lunch with "someone," which means anybody from Navy Secretary Dan Kimball to Eleanor Roosevelt. After Newbold Morris was roughly handled by a congressional committee for his part in the tanker deals (TIME, March 12), Columnist Fleeson carted him home to cheer him up with a home-cooked meal-and, incidentally, get a column...
Back-Room Training. Politically, Columnist Fleeson considers herself a "nonpartisan liberal." She got her first real taste of politics early, in Sterling, Kans. (pop. 2,239), where her father had a clothing store and more or less "ran the town from the back room." After graduating from the University of Kansas, she went East and got a job on a small Long Island paper. In 1927, she graduated to the New York Daily News. "There," she recalls, "we learned to hit 'em in the eye. We belonged to the who-the-hell-reads-the-second-paragraph school." She still...
...married News Columnist John O'Donnell and wrote a "Capitol Stuff" column with him for eight years. But in the early '40s the two had a falling out. Among other things he had developed a bitter hatred for Roosevelt. Doris Fleeson got a divorce from the column and O'Donnell. She did a short term as a war correspondent for the Woman's Home Companion, then settled down to columning in Washington, where she set up a home in Georgetown for herself and her 20-year-old daughter, a Vassar student. Says she: "I hit people...