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''She was my idol,'' said columnist Mary McGrory. McGrory, in writing of women, referred to Doris Fleeson as ''incomparably the first political journalist of her time.'' Fleeson was, in fact, the first woman in the United States to become a nationally syndicated political columnist. In 1945, with the encouragement of Henry Mencken, she launched her column. In her career she would write some 5,500 columns during the next twenty-two years. Fleeson's appearance could be disarming. Once at a party Lady Bird Johnson exclaimed, ''What a gorgeous dress, Doris. It makes you look just like a sweet, old-fashioned girl.'' The wife of Senator Stuart Symington interjected, ''Yes, just a sweet old-fashioned girl with a shiv in her hand.'' Comments of a few of her Eleanor ''I am always happy to see her because one expects journalists and war correspondents to lose some of their enthusiasm and convictions. Doris always feels strongly and bolsters my feeling that it is worth fighting for the things one believes in.'' Henry ''Your pieces are excellent stuff.... You get as much into 400 or 500 words as the comrades get into columns, and it is better told.'' Liz ''She was short, attractive, thin and f

Author

Sayler, Carolyn , 1934-

Publisher

Santa Fe: Sunstone Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780865347595

Subjects

Computer Science, Literary Fiction, Memoir