Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsmen got wind of something else. This was a confidential memorandum on foreign affairs which Wallace had written to the President in July. Someone in Wallace's Commerce Department-doubtless thinking that this was an opportune time to embarrass the President-had given a copy to Columnist Drew Pearson, who intended to publish it. PM's I. F. ("Izzy") Stone somehow got a copy too. Other newspapermen demanded to see it. When the press roar became unbearable, bewildered Presidential Secretary Charlie Ross told Commerce to release the letter, and Commerce did. When Harry Truman heard that the letter...
...surface, at least, Andrew Russell ("Drew") Pearson and Robert Sharon ("Bob") Allen were a team again. A few months ago the two Merry-Go-Roundmen were not speaking, but last week they joined to ask FCC to jerk a radio license from Hearst and give it to them. Neither would discuss their old feud or their new venture. Said redheaded, cavalry-cussing Colonel Allen: "Allen's relations with Pearson are strictly Allen's business . . . and he won't talk...
...Pearson & Allen petition put FCC on a hot seat it had warmed for others. Last spring, FCC's now famous "Blue Book" (TIME, March 18) threatened to revoke broadcasting licenses of stations that preferred commercials to programs. As a glaring example, it cited Hearst's Baltimore station, WBAL, which once broadcast 507 spot commercials in a single week. That is the station Drew and Bob want...
...Pearson & Allen will fight Hearst in the open when they air their radio plans in an Oct. 1 hearing. Whatever the outcome, FCC will suffer. If Hearst wins, the Blue Book threat will lose its starch; if Hearst loses, FCC will be accused of knuckling under to Washington's gossip boys. Said Pearson's & Allen's attorney: there is so much interest already in the hearing that "they're selling tickets...
Last to drop department-store advertising was the Daily News, which had stored huge reserves of paper and early in the strike had boasted that it was doing fine.*Hardest hit was the tabloid Mirror, which shrank to a skinny eight pages but clung stubbornly to Winchell, Pearson and two pages of comics, along with a nubbin of news. (And moved a nightclub comedian to crack: "I'm so weak I can't even lift a copy of today's Mirror V) Whistling shrilly to keep up its courage, the starveling Mirror ran a daily silver-lining...