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Beside Mackenzie King in the high-ceilinged old office in the East Block sat Lester Bowles Pearson, Canada's ace diplomat. For once he seemed ill at ease, like a modest football hero. Mackenzie King was ready to tell the press the week's top secret: from Louis St. Laurent, Prime Minister-to-be, "Mike" Pearson was taking over the job of Secretary of State for External Affairs...
After 20 years as a civil servant, two years as Under Secretary for External Affairs, Pearson was getting into politics. He took up his new cabinet post with a sense of mission. In his view, the chief hope of easing the continuing international tension lies in an Atlantic defensive union linking North America with Europe's Western Union. In Washington, U.S. and Canadian diplomats were already working on the problem. Pearson was sure that he had something to contribute...
Block That Rumor. Nevertheless, the commentators had to comment (Drew Pearson confidently began a column: "Here is the inside story . . ."). The London Times's diplomatic correspondent wrote (in London) that "The Moscow talks yesterday advanced a stage nearer their conclusion, which cannot now be much longer delayed." The Manchester Guardian's stay-at-home diplomatic correspondent was also pawing the air: "It has been felt in some quarters that the meeting might prove decisive, but there is nothing to show that it did, in fact, produce any results...
...Herald columnist (Eve's Rib), Washington business properties, her black pearl earrings, a sable scarf; to the Red Cross, her Washington home at 15 Dupont Circle; to various charities "aiding needy children, especially homeless and orphan children," the residue of her multimillion-dollar estate; to her granddaughter, Ellen Pearson Arnold, daughter of Columnist Drew Pearson (who had long been trading blows in print with his ex-mother-in-law), nothing, "inasmuch as I have made a substantial gift to her during my lifetime...
Columnist Drew Pearson last week paid his last respects. Wrote he: "A great lady died the other day-a lady who had caused me much happiness-and much pain. She was my ex-mother-in-law, Eleanor Patterson, who used to write about me in such scathing terms that even the very frank TIME Magazine had to interpret them with dots and dashes ... Sometimes Page I featured headlines about 'the headache boy'-Cissie's description of her ex-son-in-law . . . Today, Senator Brewster of Maine has his offices stacked high with 75,000 reprints...