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Across the top of Page One, the Washington Star (circ. 226,573) splashed an eight-column banner: GENERAL EISENHOWER SUBMITS RESIGNATION. The story, under the byline of Columnist Doris Fleeson, reported that Ike's resignation "is at the White House." Columnist Fleeson had scored a small beat. Capital newsmen had been nibbling at the story, but none had said straight out that it was on the President's desk. The Star's confidence in Doris Fleeson's sources was not misplaced. Next day, the White House confirmed the news (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...newshen in Washington and one of the capital's best political reporters, Columnist Fleeson gets her share of scoops for about 70 papers that carry her column. But her reputation depends more on her backstairs reporting of political plots & counterplots. Her pipelines into the Administration are so well placed that her columns on what the Fair Dealers are thinking often reveal what the Democrats will do long before they are ready to announce it or are quite sure themselves...
Drawing-Room Beat. Columnist Fleeson gets so much fun out of her job that friends who see her gadding about sometimes wonder when she works. The answer is: all the time. Says she: "People sometimes talk to me about things other than politics," but not very often. With a combination of ladylike charm, blazing indignation and air-burning profanity, she manages to like and be liked by almost everybody in the capital...
...likely to be busy for dinner almost every night, and never miss having lunch with "someone," which means anybody from Navy Secretary Dan Kimball to Eleanor Roosevelt. After Newbold Morris was roughly handled by a congressional committee for his part in the tanker deals (TIME, March 12), Columnist Fleeson carted him home to cheer him up with a home-cooked meal-and, incidentally, get a column...
American Broadcasting Co. announced that Winchell "will take an extended vacation because of ill health," and his Sunday spot will be taken by Columnist Drew Pearson. Winchell still collects on a separate lifetime contract for an undisclosed amount with ABC. No one could say when he would return to either his broadcast or his newspaper column. Said Executive Editor Glenn Neville of the New York Mirror, Winchell's home paper: "All we know is there's nothing organically wrong with him. He's fatigued and exhausted. We're just waiting for him to come back, although...