Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood stars had toured the Dominion, had made seven film shorts and 37 radio transcriptions. In a gesture of gratitude, Canada took over the pale green sunroom (for cocktails) and the green-paneled Palm Room (for dinner) of the swank Beverly Hills Hotel, exported boyish, popular Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, Dominion ambassador to Washington, as guest speaker. There was also a kilted Scottish bagpiper, and a mouth-watering Canadian dinner presided over by austere John Helders, maître d'hotel sent down from the Vancouver Hotel...
...Gridiron is the "Hardened Arteries Club," top-heavy with conservative pundits and alumni who have grabbed fancy public-relations jobs. Its roster is sprinkled with able men, but some of them, like veteran Scripps-Howardman Tom Stokes, had to win a Pulitzer Prize to get in. People like Pearson & Allen have never been admitted, nor has anyone from such left-of-center papers as the Chicago Sun and Times, the New York Post and PM. One blackball is enough. The bureau chiefs of A.P., U.P. (U.P.'s Lyle Wilson, Gridiron's outgoing president, ran the dinner), New York...
Their rather thin love makes a rather thin love story. The girl (well-played by attractive Beatrice Pearson) is understandable and fairly real; but the man (well enough played by Walter Abel) is not convincing. Nor has Playwright van Druten sufficiently concentrated on The Mermaids Singing as a romantic duet. He has thrown in a mixed choir of nonfunctional minor characters who spoil the play's tone and slacken its tempo...
Those who received the promotions were Lynn Harold Loomis, associate professor of Mathematics and tutor, former faculty instructor; Pearson Hunt, associate professor of Finance, who has served, since 1940, as an assistant professor; and Abraham Lincoln Gordon, associate professor of Business Administration, formerly a faculty instructor of Government, who has been on leave with the War Production Board since...
Said ex-son-in-law Drew Pearson, in his Sunday night broadcast: "The British have organized a society for protection against mothers-in-law, but what we really need in this country is an organization for protection against ex-mothers-in-law. I would like to be a charter member." Said Winchell, on his program two hours later: "Very special bulletin! The craziest woman in Washington, D.C. is not yet confined at St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the insane. She is, however, expected any edition...