The Press: Old Men's Turn

No pair of Washington newspapermen has made the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court more uncomfortable than able, caustic Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen. Their Nine Old Men was a best seller of 1936. Their Washington Merry-Go-Round, political gossip column, rarely misses a chance to plant a tack on a Justice's padded chair. But last week it was the Court's turn to make Pearson and Allen uncomfortable, and they did a thoroughgoing job of it.

Up for the Court's opinion was a copyright case with a unique twist. In 1932 Pearson and...

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