Show WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS c l vj 2 w IL ROBT ALLEN DREW PEARSON Drew Pearson and Robert S. S Allen who write our weekly feature the Washington Merry Go Round are probably the best known of f Washington Wash Wash- ington correspondents National attention was vas drawn to Pearson Pearsall and Allen when their first book beok The liThe Washington Ier 1 Merry Go Round became a a. best seller The book concerned the and the strong points of the great and near great of the capital city Since that time Pearson and Allen Alen have held national attention by other best sellers sellers sellers sell sell- ers Including The liThe Nine Old Men and by their thel sprightly column of inside inside inside in side news This colum deals with highlights and sidelights rather than with opinion op for Pearson and Allen Alle are essentially news reporters r rather rath ther th- th er 01 than commentators Their news newa scoops Ita have ye been historic Drew brew Pearson is tall professorial l looking He was a professor In fact having taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at Columbia between between be be- tween periods of globe trotting and covering Important news posts in various valious parts of the world Pearson Pearson Pearson Pear Pear- son was was was' born in Evanston Illinois in n 1 1897 S 9 7 graduated from in 1919 then worked with the British British Brit Brit- ish Red Crp Cross s in Inthe the Balkans and was head at of Quaker Relief Work in Serbia Albania and Montenegro In 1922 he shipped as a seaman from Seattle and what with some newspaper newspaper per work and as a lecturer he the e lived for a time in Japan China the Philippines Philippines Phil Phil- I Australia New Zealand and London In 1 1926 1026 2 6 he became foreign editor U United States Dally Daily Bob Allen in contrast with Drew Pearson is short red-headed red and fiery In his enthusiasms He was born in Kentucky in 1888 helped Pershing chase Villa into Mexico in I 1916 went overseas o with the cavalry cavalry cay cay- alry In the World War got wounded wound wound- ed came back as aa a p. boy lieu lieutenant tenant and worl worked ed his way through the University University University Un Un- of Wisconsin winning ft n. scholarship abroad He chose choBo a a. year at t the University of Munich and from there there here he lie reported the Hitler putsch for a a Boston I per He returned to the United States Stats Stat- Stat es s in 1924 In 1929 he was the head of f the Christian Science Monitor Bureau Bu- Bu n- n reau eau at Washington V shin ton lb He 1 ed led Hoover 1 on hIs big good goodwill will tour toni of at South Am America In 29 9 he went vent to Mexico to write a series of articles and in 1930 he made astuy a astuy of European capitals including including ing ng Moscow |