Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the sidelines, Columnist Drew Pearson also threw some grit into Waltham's newly cleaned works. Waltham's new boss, John Hagerty, had left his $10,000-a-year job as Boston manager of the RFC to take the $30,000-a-year Waltham presidency. Since it was RFC which had lent Waltham $6,000,000 to pay debts and resume production, Pearson asked: "Did Waltham offer the lush salary to Hagerty because he deserved it, or as a reward for helping swing the RFC loan?" Retorted RFC: Hagerty did recommend the loan, but RFC headquarters in Washington...
City Across the River (Universal-International), based on Irving Shulman's novel, The Amboy Dukes, and solemnly introduced by Drew Pearson, is another slum drama with a social message. It tells the story of a Brooklyn kid (Peter Fernandez) who joins a tough street gang (the "Dukes") and quickly goes wrong...
...Dukes, and notably Peter Fernandez and Al Ramsen, give excellent performances. They do so well, in fact, that they could get along without any help from Pundit Pearson, who shows up again at the end to preach the moral. In the process, he almost pulls the teeth of a film that has a lot of bite...
...practicing individual liberty, and that of this fraction half live in the United States." Secondly, he added, "in this poker game our cards are up while the Kremlin's are down." "The press is continually floodlighting our hand," he said, while "underneath the card table are people like Drew Pearson--performing a very useful function...
...also had a few bruises to show for it. Los Angeles newspapers played up Mrs. Phillips' story. At week's end, four men, armed with pistols and iron pipes, walked into Pearson's shop. They wrecked the joint, beat Pearson vigorously about the head and body, sent him to the hospital with concussion and a lamed...