Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MINNESOTA: John E. Pearson, 17, of Willmar; Willmar Junior-Senior Saint Louis; Saint Louis Country Day High School; John T. Take, Jr., 17, of School; Warren J. Kratky, 18, of Saint Louis; Cleveland High School, Saint Louis; Wesley S. Melahn, 19, of Vandalia; Vandalia High School...
...When Pearson & Allen asked her to cancel their contract, Cissie countered by yanking their column out of its spot opposite the editorial page, pushed it back among the want ads, chopped it up, some days dropped it altogether...
Columnist Pearson, the more politic of the Pearson & Allen team, had long made himself agreeable to Publisher Patterson. He brought her their column-generally believed to be one of her paper's best circulation-pullers-in 1934 for $100 a week. (Cissie liked its pro-New Deal slant then.) To please her he even went so far as to judge Times-Herald beauty contests...
When, after Pearl Harbor, the Merry-Go-Round column went after the isolationist press, Cissie began to cool toward Pearson & Allen. This spring she fired Pearson's present wife, Luvie Moore, a member of the Times-Herald staff who had been one of her close friends. She also fired Drew's brother Leon, a Times-Herald columnist. Adding insult to injury, she hired Luvie's former husband George Abell, the one man Drew and Luvie can not abide...
Fortnight ago she published a box quoting allegedly derogatory remarks (but omitting numerous praises of MacArthur) which have appeared in Merry-Go-Round in recent years, accusing Pearson & Allen of "false and sneering innuendo ... to smear the reputation of a great man. . . ." The Merry-Go-Round will probably soon appear in Eugene Meyer's Washington Post...