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THE OBSERVERDORIS FLEESONDoris Fleeson is the only woman Washington correspondent whose /ork appears regularly in the great* NOW SHOWING +Big Selection Of EARLY AMERICAN FURNITURE—Plus— MODERNBartsch Furniture Co.Warren, Pa.metropolitan dailies of the United States.Five times a week Miss Fleeson writes a terse, crisp piece of interpretive news reporting about an important political development. It is distributed by United Feature Syndicate to a coast-to-coast clien-| tele including The Washington Star,I Boston Globe, New York Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City Star Times, Los Angeles Examiner, Atlanta Journal, Minneapolis Star-Tribune and Oakland Tribune.Her professional honors include the Raymond Clapper Award, Missouri Journalism Award, ThetaSig ma Phi Headliner Award, New York Newspaperwomen’s Club prize for I Distinguished Reporting (twice)Her own University, Kansas, has given her a distinguished alumni citation; she holds an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Cul-ver-Stockton College, and has been honored with a Woman of Achievement award by the American Federation of Soroptimist Clubs.Miss Fleeson usually writes from Washington and her specialty is domestic politics. This is no longer a narrow subject and Miss Fleeson has literally pursued the American national interest around the world.Miss Fleeson was bom in Sterling, Kansas, and educated in the Kansas public schools. Following her graduation from K. U. she went East and became a general reporter on The New York Daily News.Assignment to the Seabury investigations into municipal corruption in New York city led her into politics. After tours at City Hall and the New York State legislature, she was sent to Washington in 1933 to help open a national news bureau for The News.There she had a varied experience covering every facet of the New Deal, The White House, the Supreme Court, Congress, the national political campaigns and the pre-war struggle against isolationism. In 1943 she left The News and became a war correspondent for The Woman’s Home Companion in the North African and European theatres. Following the war she returned to Washington and began her syndicated column.MODERN WOODMEN★Life Insurance ★Savings Plans ★Retirement Plans ★Mortgage Cancellation Plans ★Educational FundsALBERT P. LYFORD P. O. Box 257, Sugar Grove, Pa. Phone 52-R-llMODERN WOODMENOF AMERICAHome Office — Rock Island, 111.Miss Fleeson formerly was married to New York Daily News’ columnist John O’Donnell, and has a daughter, Miss Doris O’Donnell, recent graduate of Vassar College. Miss O’Donnell worked for Edward Steichen on his photographic exhibit, The Family of Man, and is now with ABC-TV in New York.The family home is an old Georgetown house with book-lined walls, English furniture and the usual brick-walled garden.Miss Fleeson is a member and former President of The Women’s National Press Club, a member of the 1925 F Street Club, of Chi Omega and Theta Sigma Phi. She is an Episcopalian.‘Bring Us iour Money TroublesIf you need cash to pay medical or dental bills .... to consolidate your debts .... to buy an automobile or home appliance .... or for any other worthwhile purpose, we have the loan to meet your needs. Tailor-made to fit your budget, it provides the cash when you need it, with a minimum of red tape.COME IN OR PHONERESERVE LOAN CO. of WARREN219 Liberty St. - - - Phone RA3-4800Open 9-5 Daily Wed. Sat. Til I P. M.★ ★★★★★★★ EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT ★★★★★★* * *99 ** * * * * * * * * * * * ♦ * * * * * *Time Magazine in listing 13 Washington writers as the Core of the Corps,’’ said of Miss Fleeson:Her 'interpretive articles,’ as she calls them, make informative reading, thanks to her well-used pipelines to Congressional offices .She attends no off-the-record conferences, yet frequently knows what the Administration is up to before many of its brass hats.”Her favorite comment about herself came from an editor who wrote: Doris Fleeson is a success because she learned the cardinal principles of reporting as a profession and has never tried to attract attention to herself by eccentricities.She was also very happy when Eric Sevareid, CBS news analyst, told the American Booksellers convention last spring:Look carefully at the daily column written by Doris Fleeson. If you are, as a reader, intimate with the whole cargo of background she is writing against on any given day, you cannot fail to be impressed by the Swiss-watch economy of her construction. There is scarcely a wasted or replaceable word. She is probably the finest woman reporter of the time and in the field of pure party politics has no superior.
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Warren Observer
Warren, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Dec 11, 1959
Page 15
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