Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulletin's 180-page first Sunday edition this week, thrown together in eight days by regular Evening Bulletin staffers working overtime, was packed with such ex-Record features as Drew Pearson, Hedda Hopper, Steve Canyon and Li I Abner. It included comic and book sections still under the Record emblem, and two magazine sections for the price of one: Marshall Field's Parade and Hearst's American Weekly-both of them loot from the Record. With a Sunday package like that, Publisher McLean hoped soon to take the qualifier out of his advertising slogan: "In Philadelphia, Nearly...
...while the men in blue invaded the Boston Arena February 1 to nose out Boston University 6 to 5 and match the Crimson's December victory over the Terriers on the same rink by the same margin. Yale's high scoring forwards--Artie Moher, Gordy Ritz, and Fred Pearson--are pushing on 30 points apiece. Wait Allen and Jack Calhoun are strong at defense, while highly-touted goaltender Captain Terry Van Ingen rounds out the Eli sextet...
...Drew Pearson revealed in one of his columns early in 1945, the motives for the British policy in Greece were at least partly linked to the fact that Hambro's Bank of London, the chief British creditors of Greece . . . had bailed Winston Churchill out of bankruptcy...
Last week in London, Adamic and his publishers, Harpers, decided that they had been taken for a ride on Drew Pearson's glittering "Washington Merry-Go-Round." It cost them an estimated $20,000. It was proved in court that Churchill had never been under obligation to the bank. To every person in England who was sent a copy of the book, Harpers promised to send a correction and an apology. Author Adamic had never asked Merry-Go-Rounder Pearson to prove his statement, and had added the footnote after Harpers had accepted the final proofs...
Four neatly dressed real-estate men gingerly picked their way through the dusty, bustling city room of Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Off in a corner they found their man, a Hearstling whose byline outdraws Pegler, Pearson and Eleanor Roosevelt in the far Northwest, and next to Blondie is the PI's most avidly read feature. One of the callers made a little speech, and Sports Editor Royal Brougham learned that he, of all people, was Seattle's "first citizen...