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Taking his turn as a witness before the Senate subcommittee discussing ethics in government, Columnist Drew Pearson proposed that public officials be required to list their security holdings publicly. Senator Paul H. Douglas, presiding, promptly obliged: "I might say I have 70 shares of U.S. Steel, 20 shares of two public utilities, and about $4,000 worth of bonds in private industry...
...anywhere else. They are wined, dined and courted endlessly, not only by bureaucrats but by politicos, lobbyists, ambassadors and hordes of pressure boys who want the Government to do-or not to do-something. They belong to such exclusive clubs as the Metropolitan, where it is usual to see Columnist Walter Lippmann sitting down with an ambassador. They are even decorated by foreign governments...
Drew Pearson, 53, has the largest circulation (over 600 papers) of any Washington columnist, thanks partly to his reputation for risking libel. Pearson gets many of his tips from disgruntled Congressmen or bureaucrats out to knife a policy or an opponent; fellow newsmen often slip him a risky story their own papers won't print. Pearson's stories are slapdash and often inaccurate, but his Quaker righteousness, bulldog tenacity and one-man campaigns (one sent Parnell Thomas to jail) have helped keep politicos and bureaucrats honest...
...Columnist Doris Fleeson, fortyish, witty and lively, learned the columning trade while teamed up with ex-husband John O'Donnell of the New York Daily News, now goes it alone in 72 papers. Her "interpretive articles," as she calls them, make informative reading, thanks to her well-used pipelines to congressional offices and the Democratic National Committee. She attends no off-the-rec-ord conferences, yet frequently knows what the Administration is up to before many of its brasshats...
Everybody Gets Rich. Taking a professional skeptic's view of the whole affair, New York Herald Tribune Columnist Red Smith summed it up with a tart comment on who fights who these days and why: "You can't blame Hurley, you can't blame Murphy and you can't blame the promoter [Norris]. Chances are all three will win in the end. Let Matthews be passed up just a little longer, and there'll be such outraged cries from coast to coast that the bout will make everybody independently wealthy...