Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great distances are all part of the week's work. Take Canada, for example. The five newsstand reps in the Dominion of Canada are Michael Callahan, responsible for all of Canada; Larry Goulet and his assistant Dick Genin, who work from Ontario east through Newfoundland; and Bill Pearson, with his assistant Dick Schouten, responsible for Manitoba west through British Columbia...
...Alberta crashed and burned. The American News Co. in Winnipeg called TIME'S production office in Chicago to rush all available extra copies west. Callahan phoned his distributors in Toronto and Montreal to strip their newsstands to the bare minimum and air-express the copies to Vancouver, where Pearson was busy making special arrangements with his distributors to meet the off-schedule shipments as they arrived...
...toughest three-week distribution scrambles that Pearson has had was during the Fraser Valley flood of 1948. All eastern rail and road connections to Vancouver were cut off. Pearson was on the phone almost constantly, directing shipments of TIME off planes to trains, and off stranded trains back to planes as bridges went out, flights were canceled. Says he: "It was an hour-to-hour guessing game of where to shuffle the load next...
Sleepless Night. For White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty and Public Affairs Director John DeChant of the Federal Civil Defense Administration, it was a sleepless night. At about 2 a.m., the wire services called to say they were going to release their stories, since Drew Pearson and the Times had already done so. At 4:30, CBS was on the phone asking: What about the pictures? At 6:45, Hagerty and DeChant finally decided there was no use holding out, removed the embargo entirely. CBS, which had planned to break the release, any way, was on the air with...
...when editors started calling Pearson to find out why he had broken the release date, no one was more surprised than Pearson himself. He had not even been to the briefing, or known about the one-week embargo. Actually, Pearson had got hold of the film script long before, had broadcast an H-bomb description three months ago with almost as many details as last week's column. No one had said anything about it. Last week's col umn, said Pearson, was written only be cause "I didn't have anything better to write about...