Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American Broadcasting Co. announced that Winchell "will take an extended vacation because of ill health," and his Sunday spot will be taken by Columnist Drew Pearson. Winchell still collects on a separate lifetime contract for an undisclosed amount with ABC. No one could say when he would return to either his broadcast or his newspaper column. Said Executive Editor Glenn Neville of the New York Mirror, Winchell's home paper: "All we know is there's nothing organically wrong with him. He's fatigued and exhausted. We're just waiting for him to come back, although...
...Oliver Franks, British ambassador to the U.S., was everyone's first choice when the new job of NATO secretary general was created at Lisbon (TIME, March 3). But Sir Oliver said no. The job was next offered to Canada's External Affairs Secretary Lester ("Mike") Pearson, and then to The Netherlands' Foreign Minister Dirk Stikker. Their governments refused to spare them...
There is one suggestion I want to make. Please keep your reporters away from the trial, and try not to meddle in this case too much. Just as sure as Drew Pearson, TIME, LIFE and the N.A.A.C.P. start "sticking their nose" into this case, the people of North Carolina are going to resent it. And although their conscience would say that these fellows should be convicted, they will not do it. This is just a suggestion for what it is worth...
...Glenn L. Martin Co., which had a new president just three years ago, last week got another one. Out went Chester Charles Pearson, 45, the aircraft production man (formerly with Curtiss-Wright and Douglas) who was hired in 1949 to solve the debt-ridden company's problems. In came George Maverick Bunker, 44, an engineer with no aircraft experience but plenty of promotional know...
...past year, Columnist Drew Pearson has been without a full-time sponsor for his radio show (Sun. 6 p.m., ABC). Adam Hat Stores, his sponsor for a year and a half, dropped him a few weeks after Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, with the protection of his Senator's privilege, denounced Pearson on the floor of the Senate as a "Communist tool," and called for a boycott on Adam Hats (TIME, Jan. 8, 1951). Last week Pearson finally seemed to have beaten the McCarthy hex. Carter Products (Little Liver Pills, Rise, Arrid) signed him to a 52-week radio...