Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bell Syndicate's Drew Pearson, introduced, in recognition of his libel docket, as "the only man . . . with more suits than Hart Schaffner & Marx," rolled with the attack. He realized, he said, that some "indefensible things" had been published by columnists, "and I myself have sinned. I'd like to forget a number of things." But alert columnists have kept the lid on graft, have "been able ... to give to newspapers some things which they would not otherwise...
...Pearson had a Sunday punch. The Milwaukee Journal itself, said he, knew all the facts in the celebrated case of White House Aide General Vaughan and the deepfreeze scandal (TIME, July 4, 1949 et seq.) and was "afraid" to print it. Instead, it passed the story on to Congressmen to investigate. When Pearson picked up the trail in Washington, he risked libel and printed as much of the story as he could get. Said Pearson: "If Mr. Ferguson's paper had published and not banned columns, they would have published the story of General Vaughan...
Special awards went to ABC for "the network's courageous stand in resisting organized pressure" during the Gypsy Rose Lee-Red Channels controversy (TIME, Sept. 25), and to the Providence Journal for a "most exacting, thorough and readable checkup of broadcasts by Walter Winchell, Drew Pearson and Fulton Lewis Jr.," which concluded that they were either inaccurate, misleading or inclined to emotionalism...
Complex Denial. The paper had also been smudged with bad publicity. Early last month. Columnist Drew Pearson charged, in a $3,100,000 damage suit, that the Times-Herald was in league with Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy and others to ruin him (TIME, March 12). Then a congressional investigating committee called Bazy, Assistant Managing Editor Garvin Tankersley, and other T-H staffers to Capitol Hill to explain why they published a composite picture showing Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings and Communist Earl Browder together (TIME, March...
Generals & Politicians. In Ottawa, Minister for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson chided generals who intervene dangerously in international policy. The French press, both right and left, voiced the strongest misgivings. "An Asiatic war," said Franc-Tireur, "is too serious to be left in the hands of a military man whose years exasperate his turbulence...