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Round & Round. This week all these items were tossed in the firebox of Drew Pearson's clangorous Washington Merry-Go-Round. Such fuel, some chestnut-sized, some no bigger than pea coal, and every now & then a nugget as big as a man's hand, has kept the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Querulous Quaker | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Pearson's Merry-Go-Round appears in 600 newspapers with 20 million circulation. (Estimated income to Pearson: $2,000 a week.) Then there's the radio. On Sunday nights he talks over ABC to 10 million people, for a weekly wage of $5,000 plus all the Lee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Querulous Quaker | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

For example, Pearson's charges that Democratic Senator Elmer Thomas was speculating in commodity markets with inside government information finally got Republican Senator Homer Ferguson's investigating committee after Thomas. When Ferguson suddenly stopped investigating, Pearson's nose twitched, and off he went on the scent. Finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Querulous Quaker | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Pearson also counts on the common failing of Congressmen: they can't help talking. "I often tell a friend or two to keep their ears open at a closed-door meeting," says Pearson. During the war, the Merry-Go-Round spilled the news that F.D.R. had irritably snubbed General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Querulous Quaker | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Peek Up a Rope. If necessary, he will twist an arm. Last year he called John Sonnett, who was taking over the Justice Department's anti-trust division, to point out that he was accustomed to getting anti-trust scoops. Retorted Sonnett: "Aw, go peek up a rope." Sonnett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Querulous Quaker | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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