Word: fleeson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the top of Page One, the Washington Star (circ. 226,573) splashed an eight-column banner: GENERAL EISENHOWER SUBMITS RESIGNATION. The story, under the byline of Columnist Doris Fleeson, reported that Ike's resignation "is at the White House." Columnist Fleeson had scored a small beat. Capital newsmen had been nibbling at the story, but none had said straight out that it was on the President's desk. The Star's confidence in Doris Fleeson's sources was not misplaced. Next day, the White House confirmed the news (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...newshen in Washington and one of the capital's best political reporters, Columnist Fleeson gets her share of scoops for about 70 papers that carry her column. But her reputation depends more on her backstairs reporting of political plots & counterplots. Her pipelines into the Administration are so well placed that her columns on what the Fair Dealers are thinking often reveal what the Democrats will do long before they are ready to announce it or are quite sure themselves...
Drawing-Room Beat. Columnist Fleeson gets so much fun out of her job that friends who see her gadding about sometimes wonder when she works. The answer is: all the time. Says she: "People sometimes talk to me about things other than politics," but not very often. With a combination of ladylike charm, blazing indignation and air-burning profanity, she manages to like and be liked by almost everybody in the capital...
Snaps & Barks. As the questioning went on, Truman snapped and barked at the reporters. He paused at one point and glared at the Bell Syndicate's Doris Fleeson, one of the Administration's most effective supporters among the working press. She hadn't said a word, but Truman demanded to know why she was looking at him like that. He asked the question with a force that shocked the newsmen. He asked if she wanted to run a sob-sister piece, and added that he didn't need any sob-sister pieces. Later, Reporter Fleeson said...
Columnist Doris Fleeson, fortyish, witty and lively, learned the columning trade while teamed up with ex-husband John O'Donnell of the New York Daily News, now goes it alone in 72 papers. Her "interpretive articles," as she calls them, make informative reading, thanks to her well-used pipelines to congressional offices and the Democratic National Committee. She attends no off-the-rec-ord conferences, yet frequently knows what the Administration is up to before many of its brasshats...