Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drew Pearson, brash breathless Washington columnist, starred in the publicity trick of the week. In the New York Times his radio sponsor (the Frank H. Lee Co.) ran a full-page ad (cost: $4,800) announcing that "Pearson has attacked [the Ku Klux Klan] in radio broadcasts and newspaper columns. He was immediately . . . threatened with injury to life and limb should he set foot in [Georgia]. . . Mr. Pearson will deliver this Sunday's broadcast from the steps of the State capitol in Atlanta. . . . Mr. Pearson's life [has been insured] for One Million Dollars for the benefit...
Harold L. Ickes (Sun. 7 p.m., ABC). The old Curmudgeon subs for Drew Pearson...
...lanky governor nomineo called a press conference at his hotel here to deny columnist Drew Pearson's charge that he was supported by the Ku Klux Klan...
...Drew Pearson seems to know a lot more than I do about me," he said. "I am not a member of the Klan, never have been and don't ever expect...
...Anybody," quipped Wilde in his heyday, "can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature . . . to sympathize with a friend's success." Biographer Pearson's sympathy is broad enough to cover both aspects of Wilde's career. He has chosen to stress Wilde the drawing-room wit, the extravagant fop, the brilliant author of comedies as sparkling as any ever written for the English stage...