The Drew Pearson Story

The Drew Pearson Story, by Frank Kluckhohn and Jay Franklin (Charles Hallberg & Co., $4.95). This is probably the most unauthorized biography since JFK: The Man and the Myth. The authors, veteran newspapermen both, have skilfully taken Drew and quartered him. This they achieve by the singular tactic of researching the truth and recording it accurately; a technique which internal evidence suggests they did not learn from Pearson. However, the authors have employed one of Pearson’s favorite ploys—the breezy use of innuendo and questionable analogy—to the detriment of their book. Veracity needs no cheap tinsel. Besides, coating a well-honed hatchet with smear only dulls the blade. Nevertheless, The Drew Pearson Story is in its way fascinating—a sort of journalistic Mondo Cane—not only for its background and historical information, but for the facts on the current investigation of Senator Dodd. Messrs. Kluckhohn and Franklin show that although Pearson writes a hard-hitting column, he is somewhat indifferent to the beltline.

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The Drew Pearson Story, by Frank Kluckhohn and Jay Franklin (Charles Hallberg & Co., $4.95). This is probably the most unauthorized biography since JFK: The Man and the Myth. The authors, veteran newspapermen both, have skilfully taken Drew and quartered him. This they achieve by the singular tactic of researching the truth and recording it accurately; a technique which internal evidence suggests they did not learn from Pearson. However, the authors have employed one of Pearson’s favorite ploys—the breezy use of innuendo and questionable analogy—to the detriment of their book. Veracity needs no cheap tinsel. Besides, coating a well-honed hatchet with smear only dulls the blade. Nevertheless, The Drew Pearson Story is in its way fascinating—a sort of journalistic Mondo Cane—not only for its background and historical information, but for the facts on the current investigation of Senator Dodd. Messrs. Kluckhohn and Franklin show that although Pearson writes a hard-hitting column, he is somewhat indifferent to the beltline.