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Franklin D. Roosevelt called Washington Columnist Drew Pearson "a chronic liar." President Truman called him "an s.o.b." Last week Columnist Pearson got further presidential notice. Pearson had written that, unknown to newsmen cover ing President Eisenhower's recent "golfing-hunting sojourn" with Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey at Thomasville, Ga.. Vice President Nixon had paid Ike "a secret visit" to talk about his own renomination. Next day at Ike's press conference, a newsman asked: "At any time while you were in Thomasville. did Vice President Nixon meet with you there?" Replied the President emphatically...
...still pending, and last week Moscow announced the first outright rejection of a U.S. correspondent's application since the Geneva summit meeting last July. The unwelcome one: the New York Times's Harrison Salisbury, 47, whom some in the U.S. found too uncritical during his 1949-54 sojourn in Russia, but whom the Russians found "slanderous" in the Pulitzer Prizewinning series he wrote after he left...
When word spread that President Eisenhower would like to "go out and shoot some crows" during his Gettysburg sojourn, the President got a respectful but disapproving letter from the "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Old Crows." Copies also reached news-hungry wire-service correspondents at Gettysburg, and soon the deadpan stories were going out on U.P. and I.N.S. wires. Last week- as once before (TIME, Sept. 7, 1953)-the crows were coming home to roost: into the office of the society (which consists of a pressagent for National Distillers' Old Crow whisky) flew more than 500 clippings...
Hagerty spoke to the White House press corps from a new address: a Gettysburg basketball court that had been trans formed into headquarters for the 48 newsmen covering Ike's sojourn. One end of the white and rose room-which still looked like a gym-was the assembly area for Hagerty's twice-daily briefings...
...most unwanted gift to Italy, onetime Manhattan Vice Czar Lucky Luciano, 57, whose 9½-year sojourn in New York pens crowned his career as a top merchandiser of dope and prostitutes, was set to go back in business selling hypodermic needles and such in Naples, where Italy's cops have him sequestered. Lucky's new racket, however, is apparently legitimate; he will soon open a clinical supply store, purveying such items as stethoscopes and bedpans to Neapolitan doctors and hospitals...