Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pegler sat down. All the correspondents had agreed to ask only one question apiece. To three others who also put the Gurusome question Wallace snapped: "I never engage in a discussion with a stooge of Westbrook Pegler." Finally a watery-eyed oldster got up. "My name is Mencken, H. L.," he announced. "Will you call me a stooge of Pegler...
...L. Mencken," said Wallace ingratiatingly, "is nobody's stooge...
...York last week, just before his departure homeward (see PEOPLE), Soviet U.N. Delegate Andrei Gromyko was the victim of another thrust. Chatting with Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace and Canada's U.N. Delegate General A. G. L. McNaughton, Gromyko confided that he hadn't been able to get a decent apple since he arrived in the U.S. Agricultural Expert Wallace asked General McNaughton to suggest a couple of first rate Canadian varieties for the Russian. "Well," McNaughton drawled, "we have Mclntosh Reds-also the Northern...
Tears & Tipoffs. Some of the star reports have not worn well. Reporter Henry Morton Stanley greets Explorer David Livingstone (1871) with his famed question and then, like any cub, confesses that he forgot everything else that was said or happened. Charlie Mitchell battles John L. Sullivan to bare-knuckled exhaustion in 39 rounds in France, but wide-eyed young Arthur Brisbane at the ringside (1888) spends many words on the picturesque surroundings and oddities of the French...
John Reed, who later became a Soviet saint, rides on a raid with Pancho Villa (1914) and turns in a story that is half good fast Western, half a discussion of human liberty. In the same manner, H. L. Mencken ignores most of the who, what & when of the courtroom testimony in the Scopes evolution trial (1925) and tells the why of the trial in the mores of the backward, superstition-ridden hill folks...