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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rearranging the furniture and taking over the education of the children. His passion for showing people how to do things extended to his biographers ("The best authority on Shaw is Shaw," he told Archibald Henderson), and he insisted on writing a good part of his biographies by Henderson, Hesketh Pearson and Frank Harris. He simply could not bear to see anyone doing something he could do better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Greatest Shaw on Earth | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson became the first to publish a widely circulated notion that Kennedy, immediately after the accident, had Joe Gargan, his cousin, agree to "admit to driving the car." The columnists said that Ted Kennedy, Markham and Gargan returned to the Dike Bridge "to make certain that Gargan would be totally familiar with the circumstances surrounding 'his' unfortunate accident." But "in the cold light of dawn," say Pearson and Anderson, the Senator "decided to face the consequences himself." Whatever its implausibilities, the story would explain why Kennedy might have wished to establish an alibi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE KENNEDYS: INQUEST OF SUSPICIONS | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...with rumors about the Minnesota Senator's political and personal plans. The two, it was said, were entangled. Last week McCarthy, 53, made explicit an earlier ambiguous announcement by declaring he would not seek re-election to the Senate next year on any ticket in Minnesota. Columnist Drew Pearson primed Washington's gossip-go-round by reporting that McCarthy "has decided to make a complete break with the past and leave not only the Senate but his wife Abigail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: McCarthy's Future | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

McCarthy ordered his staff to deny that he was seeking a divorce, but he did not repudiate Pearson's report that the Senator's marriage was "on the rocks." The McCarthys have been married 24 years, have four children, and are practicing Roman Catholics. (At one time he was a Benedictine novice, and he still has a carved visage of St. Benedict in his Senate office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: McCarthy's Future | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

Much congressional reaction was bitter, and it seemed evident that he had hardened opposition to his Safeguard ABM plan into the bargain. Said Senator James Pearson, a Kansas Republican and an ABM foe: "I disagree with the President. I don't think it's isolationism to oppose excessive military spending." Some Democratic Senators were more abrupt. Said Albert Gore of Tennessee: "It sounded like the old Nixon I used to know." But Nixon won support from Louisiana's Russell Long and Virginia's Harry Byrd Jr. Noted Byrd: "I think he said some things which needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: DEFENDING THE DEFENDERS | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

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