The Press: Querulous Quaker

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Threading its way through Washington's crawling traffic, a black Buick convertible with red leather seats glided along the capital's stately avenues and slummy byways. Its driver, a man with a kindly but slightly worried expression, was as inconspicuous as his car was flashy. He looked like any slightly battered citizen going about his slightly battered business. And so he was. Columnist Drew Pearson was on the prowl for news.

At the Pentagon, he quizzed Chief of Staff Omar Bradley about a caustic letter from Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (an Army source...