Complex sentence: Drew Pearson's "Washington-Merry-Go-Round" column was carried in 600 newspapers, and the liberal Washington columnist Doris Fleeson also wrote a daily political column for Bell from 1945 to 1954.
Split into simpler sentences: Drew Pearson's "Washington-Merry-Go-Round" column was carried in 600 newspapers. The liberal Washington columnist Doris Fleeson wrote a daily Bell political column from 1945 to 1954.