Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington Post and Times Herald, which runs Columnist Drew Pearson on its comic page, let him get on the editorial page last week-as the target of a devastating letter. Signed "Nostradamus" (but known to the Post, which would identify him only as "a Washington magazine editor"), the letter writer noted that Pearson was reputed to score 85% in his "predictions of things to come." By recalling the columnist's Jan. 1 predictions for 1956, Nostradamus showed that Pearson had indeed approached 85%-but wrong. Among the predictions...
...Britain was doing, decided not to condemn Britain and France publicly. But it was miffed by having been kept in the dark by Eden. Not until two days after Israel's invasion did Canada suspend a scheduled delivery of 24 Sabre jets to Israel. External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson called the Anglo-French decision to intervene in Egypt "a most unhappy...
...Pearson: "At the next stop, Seattle, Ike . . . closeted himself in his suite for 24 hours, seeing no one but his family and physician." The facts: far from being closeted, the President visited with local candidates and leaders, addressed 125 members of the party's state finance committee at the hotel-and shook hands with all of them...
...Pearson would not back down. Said he: "My story was carefully checked, and I believe it to be true." While running a story on Hagerty's press conference, many of Pearson's regular outlets pointedly omitted his offending column. Typical explanation (by New York's Daily Mirror): "The facts did not substantiate" what Pearson wrote. The Portland Oregon Journal felt "impelled" to explain that Pearson's report was "utterly false" and "an unconscionable smear...
...This week the Satevepost begins a four-part autobiographical series entitled "Confessions of an S.O.B." Author: Drew Pearson, who wrote hopefuly: "While I may be an s.o.b., I hope I am not a heel...