DREW PEARSON - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 293532
Price: $70.00
DREW PEARSON
The iconic journalist who stood up against McCarthyism signed this index card
Signature: "Drew Pearson", 5x3 card. Affixed to an 8½x11 page with a newpaper photograph of
Pearson affixed above. Columnist Andrew Russell Pearson (1897-1969) is best known for
his "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column, which he began in 1932 while with the
Scripps-Howard Syndicate. Pearson, who joined "The Washington Post" in 1941, was one
of the few journalists to speak out against Joe McCarthy in the early 1950s, playing an
important role in McCarthy's downfall. From the personal collection of Ralph Errington
Ward (1926-2009). Ward, a fighter pilot and squadron commander in the
China-Burma-India Theater of World War II, went on to become President and CEO of
Cheseborough-Ponds, Inc., transforming the cosmetics firm into a major home product
conglomerate. Slightly soiled. Otherwise, fine condition.
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