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Last September, when Brehm (rhymes with seem) was running for his fifth term, Columnist Drew Pearson lined the 58-year-old Congressman up in his sights. Brehm, wrote Pearson,* was "another quiet operator in the congressional kickback circle." Over a period of three years, said Pearson, the Congressman had compelled his elderly office clerk, Mrs. Clara Soliday, to kick back a regular share of her salary; at the top, he had taken back $240 of the $442 the Government paid her each month...
...very next day, and he kept jumping up during dinner to repeat the announcement. Finally Pearson asked him how his Wisconsin income-tax case was progressing (the state is ordering McCarthy to explain his nonpayment of last year's taxes). Forthwith the burly Senator grabbed the 6-foot columnist by the neck and invited him outside to fight. Pearson agreed. They were duly separated, but when Pearson went to the cloakroom McCarthy followed, and pinned the columnist by the arms...
...each other. Then they were separated again, by Senator Richard Nixon of California, who happened by. Next day McCarthy announced that he had slapped Pearson with his open hand and knocked him down. McCarthy's pal, Radiocaster Fulton Lewis Jr., solemnly reported that the Senator had lifted the columnist "three feet off the floor" with a solid punch delivered while rising from a sitting position. Pearson announced that the Senator had kicked him in the groin twice in a manner that no fight referee would tolerate, but didn't hurt...
...Moscow, fiendishly intent on destroying "the very heart of this Republic." Pearson, he said, was not a card-carrying party member, but he got secret orders from the Reds through an associate, David Karr, whom McCarthy identified as a former writer for the Communist Daily Worker. Furthermore, he cried, Columnist Pearson had been assigned the job of ruining General Douglas MacArthur...
...Columnist Drew Pearson, attacked by Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was not the only newsman to get roughed up last week. Other victims...