Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diefenbaker rushed off to the House of Commons to announce that President Kennedy had agreed to make his first official visit out of the U.S. to Canada some time before June. The House burst into cheers, and as Cabinet members clustered around their triumphant boss even Opposition Leader Lester Pearson rose to offer his congratulations...
...were drawn together by their mutual bookishness and preoccupation with politics; Kennedy's near-fatal illness in 1955 sealed their bond. Sorensen compiled the research for Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage, while Jack was convalescing in Florida, was wrongly credited by Drew Pearson with ghosting the book-a charge that was disproved by Sorensen's notes, Kennedy's handwritten drafts, and the assistance of Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford. Pearson later retracted his charges. Sorensen helped Kennedy plot his unsuccessful try for the vice-presidential nomination in 1956. Only weeks later they embarked on the long...
...Drew Pearson's "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column in the Washington Post and Times-Herald last week was full of praise for the "amazing luck or amazing insight" of True Magazine's Editor Doug Kennedy. Wrote Pearson of Kennedy: "He published the inside story of U-2 Pilot Francis Powers' flight over Russia on the same day Powers went on trial. The story gives the details of how Powers fought to get his plane started, after stalling at 70,000 feet; how he came down to thicker air around 35,000 feet, then was attacked...
Next day the Post published without comment a letter from a sharp-eyed reader, asking "How much do you charge Drew Pearson for advertising?" The reader's point: the True article had been written by Drew Pearson and an assistant...
Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, performed by the Summer School Chorus and Orchestra with soprano Jean Lunn, control to Betty Lou Austin, tenor Frank Modica, and bass Irving Pearson, will conclude the program...