Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been 29 months overseas . . . nearly a year in the front lines. . . . My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. . . . All of a sudden it seemed to me that if I heard one more shot or saw one more dead man, I would go off my nut." Frail, brave Columnist Pyle added that, as soon as he is rested up, he hopes to push off for the Pacific...
...time drew near for Roosevelt-hating Columnist Westbrook Pegler to say farewell to Scripps-Howard and hello to Hearst (TIME, Aug. 28), he became curiously engrossed in matters which seemed far removed from his everyday peeves. His mind's eye filled with tall clipper ships crowding on sail on the China run, with silks and sandalwood and opium, gongs and the firebreath of dragons. In New York and Boston libraries he delved long in old tomes: Lawrence Kearny, Sailor Diplomat; The Clipper Ship Era; The Opium Trade; The Opium Clipper. Could Peg be softening up, seeking escape from...
...first-class international rumpus was in the making last week. The drama had an all-star cast: Franklin Roosevelt, Kentucky's Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, Columnist Drew Pearson, Ambassador William Phillips, and a whole galaxy of silk-hat names cast in minor roles. And the drama had excellent suspense-no one could guess what would happen next...
...Lion Roars. Six weeks ago Columnist Pearson, who likes to rattle closeted skeletons, somehow got into this particular closet. He rattled loudly in his column, printing excerpts from the Phillips letter. Soon hints came from London that Ambassador Phillips would resign for "personal reasons." Delightedly, Columnist Pearson printed a report that the Phillips letter had caused roars of anger up & down Downing Street. Said Pearson: the British had declared Ambassador Phillips persona non grata...
Like a bagpipe, Westbrook Pegler is raucous, penetrating, effective in arousing belligerent emotions. But also like a bagpipe, he is monotonously limited in range and variety. Last week it was announced that Columnist Pegler will shortly begin piping for a new audience. When his contract with Scripps-Howard and its United Feature Syndicate ends in November, the Pegler column will shift to Hearst and Hearst's King Features Syndicate...