Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most bizarre writer-v.-writer confrontation since Westbrook Pegler took on Drew Pearson. Charging that Gore Vidal waged "a campaign of persistent, false and defamatory allegations, both oral and written, that he is a Nazi," Conservative Columnist William Buckley filed suit asking for $500,000 in damages. The charges stemmed from a fang-and-claw exchange that took place on ABC-TV during the Democratic Convention last August. At one point in the debate, Vidal called Buckley a "crypto-Nazi," to which Buckley replied: "Listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock...
...mechanics of melodrama infest the story to its detriment. The tough white whore (Susan G. Pearson) commits suicide offstage out of unrequited love for Johnny, an event that is distinctly implausible. At times the play meanders without a visible sense of direction. Despite such flaws, the drama ticks with menace and, for such an abrasive subject, is unexpectedly and explosively funny. Gordone has expertly oiled the sly and sassy tongues by which black puts down his fellow black, and the cast's phrasing of these expletives is impeccable...
...Ladies' Home Journal is editorially allergic to the Pill, and has published articles under such titles as "The Terrible Trouble with the Birth-Control Pills." McCall's has printed a review of dropouts, called "Why They Quit the Pill." Columnist Drew Pearson reported in his more than 600 subscribing newspapers that "at least 10% of all adverse-reaction reports are fatalities and that one-third of the recent reports on one specific pill involve death...
...magazine in the past are Richard M. Nixon; Hubert H. Humphrey; George P. Baker, Dean of Harvard Business School; Dr. Fritz Machlup, Professor of International Finance at Princeton; Marshall I. Goldman of the Russian Research Center at Harvard; Henry ford; William Buckley Jr.; Ralph Nader and Drew Pearson...
Harvard's swimmers in the 400-yard medley relay opened the meet with a win to put the Crimson on top, 7-0. But UConn's Quentin Pearson and Marc Dinnerstein combined for a sweep in the 1000-yard free, which Krause sat out, to knot the score...