Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best bets remaining: Canada's shrewd, easy-going Ambassador to Washington, Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, and Norway's jovial, capable Trygve...
...Mike Pearson's most convivial ambassadorial assignments. He posed happily with Greer Garson (see cut), gently ribbed the industry for "romanticizing us into a nation of scarlet-coated Mounties who are concerned impartially with getting their men and pursuing their women." He pointed out that it had taken Canadian actors to portray U.S. Presidents on the screen (Walter Huston and Raymond Massey as Lincoln, Alexander Knox as Wilson...
After the dinner (including Manitoba buffalo steak, supreme of prairie chicken, rõti, Okanagan fruit compote, Inglenook-Traminer white wine), Mike Pearson toasted the President of the U.S.; Actor George Murphy responded with a toast to the King. Shortly after midnight, everyone went home...
When Allen went to war in July 1942, Partner Drew Pearson had given his pal a touching sen-off. "I shall miss Bob," wrote Drew. "But . . . he'll be back handing out brass rings, punching the tickets for rides on the old Merry-Go-Round." Every so often, during the war, Drew would write a letter to Allen-for all the 18,000,000 readers to see. What Pearson did not tell the readers is that when Allen went to war, Pearson offered him what Allen considered so small a share of their column's income that Allen...
...plans to return to the Record Feb. 1. Said he last week: "I haven't seen or talked to Pearson since I got back...