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...itself. It stretches from the gross inaccuracies of Drew Pearson, who is at once the least reliable and the best ratcatching reporter in town, to the sage, sometimes unfathomable profundities of Walter Lippmann, treating the current news as though it were already history. It includes Doris Fleeson, the self-appointed whip of the Democratic Party, who only last week accused her party of McCarthy tactics in castigating the sins of the Eisenhower Administration without offering any salvation for them...
Bugs & Jimmy. Columnists' comments were heady indeed. Humphrey, said New York Timesman Arthur Krock, had pulled off "the launching of the first American presidential campaign from the steps of the Kremlin." Headlined David Lawrence's column: KHRUSHCHEV-HUMPHREY TALK TOUCHED ON RELIGION, MORALS. Glowed Doris Fleeson: "It's a very merry Christmas for Hubert Humphrey." The New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston, noting that Washington had long been skeptical of Humphrey, wrote of a reappraisal: "He has been suffering for years from the original impression he created here as a gabby, to-hell...
Married. Dan A. Kimball, 62, president of California's Aerojet-General Corp., onetime (1951-53) Secretary of the Navy; and Doris Fleeson, 57, Fair-Dealing political columnist for United Feature Syndicate; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...Truman Administration, a trusty news source for hardworking, Fair-Dealing Columnist Doris Fleeson, fiftyish, was Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball. At long last on the asking side of a question, California Businessman (Aerojet-General Corp.) Kimball, 62, earned the right answer, last week provided Newshen Fleeson, ex-wife of the New York Daily News's Washington Columnist John O'Donnell, with a homegrown item: she and Dan, whose first marriage was dissolved last year, will be married next month at the home of Manhattan friends...
...without precedent by referring to himself, in effect, as President of the U.S. (south Pennsylvania Avenue division). "As majority leader of the Senate," said he, "I am aided by a cabinet made up of committee chairmen. I have conferred with them. I think they will expedite action." (Columnist Doris Fleeson, who loves Democrats but has built up an immunity to Johnson's charm, asked if he had worked out a disability agreement with his second-in-command, Montana's Mike Mansfield.) Next day Johnson's estimate of his own importance almost seemed true...