Word: fleeson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is lethargy, dependence on government handouts, press conferences, tips and gossip. Too many stories are written on the formula of "fact-plus-hunch-plus-opinion," notably by the pundits and columnists. Says Columnist Doris Fleeson, the capital's top woman reporter: "There's too little reporting, too much thumb-sucking in this town." Many correspondents are not in Washington to report; they are there to give their papers prestige, run errands for the publisher and lobby for his pet ideas, or to make routine checks...
...speech on the floor of the Senate, he urged the U.S. public to protest to the 650 newspapers which carry Pearson's column and to boycott Adam Hat Stores, Inc., which sponsors Pearson's Sunday-night radio broadcast (estimated audience: 10 million). Last week Washington Columnist Doris Fleeson, an old friend of Pearson's, broke the news that McCarthy had won a round: Adam Hats had decided not to renew Pearson's $5,000-a-week contract when it expires...
Wrote Newshen Fleeson: "The McCarthy admirers have apparently obliged with threatening communications of a type extremely familiar to columnists and commentators who have ventured to comment on the Senator's un-American habit of making unsubstantiated charges and on his curious state income tax returns...
...Truman: It was nothing of the kind. Another reporter wondered whether the President had intended to omit the "damn" in "say what he pleases." Said the President: Yes, but he would put it in if they wanted him to. When the President tried to change the subject again, Doris Fleeson, whose syndicated column appears in the Fair Dealing New York Post, stuck to the old one. Said she acidly: "Some of us think our business is very important." Snapped the President: Sometimes he was not so sure...
...mellow mood at a private party, and his quickness in sensing a news opening, that had won him his exclusive. What really galled his fellow newsmen was the fact that Krock had once more beaten them cleanly at their own game. In a left-handed way, sulking Newshen Fleeson gave him his due. Said she: "I take off my hat to Arthur Krock. He kicks Truman's teeth out 364 days a year, and on the 365th he gets an exclusive interview from [Truman's] own bleeding mouth...