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In 1930, she married News Columnist John O'Donnell and wrote a "Capitol Stuff" column with him for eight years. But in the early '40s the two had a falling out. Among other things he had developed a bitter hatred for Roosevelt. Doris Fleeson got a divorce from the column and O'Donnell. She did a short term as a war correspondent for the Woman's Home Companion, then settled down to columning in Washington, where she set up a home in Georgetown for herself and her 20-year-old daughter, a Vassar student. Says she: "I hit people hard sometimes," but they seem to take it because they know "I do that to everyone."