Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Al Capp, whose funny-paper characters are busy just being funny, returned to his sharp satire on Gould, Tracy & Co. It began in 600-odd newspapers as suddenly as his casual lampooning of Orson Welles, Gone Wif the Wind, Frank Sinatra, Sewell Avery and Drew Pearson, with a scrawled appeal from hillbilly Li'l Abner Yokum (pattern: early Henry Fonda) to Cartoonist "Lester Gooch...
Married. George Longan Arnold, 24, law-student son of sardonic Trustbuster Thurman Wesley Arnold; and Ellen Cameron Pearson, 19, daughter of gossipy Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, granddaughter of vituperative Washington Publisher Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson; in Georgetown...
...Beatice Pearson, ingenue of "The Mermaids Singing," cleverly depicts the childlike charm and shallowness of Consuela, which partially cause the conflict in "He Who Gets Slapped" and end in her death as well as that of "Funny...
Sham Battle. For the key post of Secretary General of UNO, the U.S. delegation had first put forward the name of Canada's Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, though they knew the Russians would not stand for a North American. The Russians advanced the names of two obscure eastern Europeans, although they knew the U.S. would not accept a Soviet stooge. Lie was the serious candidate of both the Americans and the Russians, although each thought the other would object...
Hottest Rumors. Suddenly rumors swept the meeting that General Dwight D. Eisenhower would accept UNO's Secretary-Generalship. Britain floated the Eisenhower rumors in an effort to head off a fight between its own candidate, Canada's quietly competent Ambassador to the U.S., Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, and Norway's Lie, who might again be supported by Russia. Poland set adrift a rumor for Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace...