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...President was ready for this: almost everybody in the room had had a hand in it, he said. Asked for specific instances, he said there were flocks of them. Read any columnist, he suggested. He went on: unfortunately, some reporters are forced to write stuff to conform with their publisher's line...
Only one story, that by Columnist John O'Donnell in the New York Daily News, had received national publicity for implying immorality in the WAACs. (O'Donnell asserted that contraceptives were to be issued to the Corps.) Generally, the U.S. knew its newspapers had patriotically backed the WAACs. Everyone went away...
Lean, acid, troublemaking Drew Pearson, famed Merry-Go-Round, keyhole columnist, got himself into a little more trouble than usual last week. John R. Monroe, host of the briefly renowned Red House on R Street (TIME, May 17), slapped a $1,000,000 libel suit on him, another for $350,000 on the Washington Post, which published the special Pearson article, for defamation of character. Meanwhile a posse of anti-Fourth Term Senators, mad enough to slap him with something else, contented themselves with giving the lie to another Pearson story...
According to the Senators, what really happened was that Gillette gave a luncheon for the Senators and Mr. Farley. They pondered ways of beating a Fourth Term nomination for the President, but neither discussed nor chose a candidate to do the wished-for scuttling. The keyhole eye of Columnist Pearson was evidently nearsighted - again...
Britain is already looking forward to Part II of World War II. Part I will end when Germany is defeated. Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper last week cabled from London...