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...Congressmen" of the late '40s and early '50s, Senator Joseph McCarthy, FCC Commissioner Richard Mack and Congressman Adam Clayton Powell. It was also Anderson who persuaded office workers for Senator Thomas Dodd to turn over the Connecticut Democrat's incriminating files. Of the more than 100 Pearson-Anderson columns devoted to the Dodd affair, all but two were written by the junior partner...
...name became better known in Washington, Anderson branched out, supplementing his Pearson income with speaking engagements, books and articles, particularly for Parade magazine (he has been its Washington correspondent since 1954). For twelve years, he collaborated with Pearson on a radio news-commentary program; on television, he conducts a weekly political forecast of the highly predictable. A last-week sample: "Teddy will fight back...
Wastebasket Facts. The column will stay pretty much the same, though it will be "less personal"-Anderson's respectful way of saying that he won't play favorites. Pearson, the charmer, was susceptible to social graces in others. But Anderson, a nondrinking, nonsmoking family man (nine children), avoids the Washington social whirl. If anything, the column can be expected to get tougher...
...could also get more accurate. Though aggressive reporting is the "Merry-Go-Round" hallmark, the column is only slightly less well known for its sacrifice of fact to fancy when the crusading spirit is upon it. As recently as seven weeks ago, Pearson was caught with his facts in the wastebasket when he charged that President Nixon had tried to dictate a starring role for himself in the Apollo moon-flight ceremonies. Anderson's reconstruction of the tragedy at Chappaquiddick also struck many as more supposition than substance. The columnist wrote that Kennedy at first persuaded his cousin Joseph...
Died. Drew Pearson, 71, U.S. journalism's most influential and controversial muckraker (see PRESS...