Word: pegler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Westbrook Pegler, a Hearst columnist, is fond of recalling that 15 years ago the American Legion gave him a plaque for striking "some blows for 'Americanism.' " Last week Pegler struck some blows at the Legion...
...Charles Addans White. 2. Westbrook Pegler. 3. E. B. White 4. James Thurber...
Miss Davies has opinions of her own on what is good and bad in the Hearst press. For one thing, she has no use for Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Said she, in the most surprising (to Hearst readers) statement of the week: "Both W.R. and I always had great respect for Eleanor Roosevelt. She is a great woman . . . When Pegler started hacking at Mrs. Roosevelt day after day, it got boring and annoying . . . W.R. wired Pegler many times to cut it out; each time Pegler laid it on thicker . . . I never read his stuff any more...
...last week needled the Cincinnati Enquirer for disagreeing with him three years ago, and warned it against cutting his columns. Snapped Managing Editor Everett Boyd: "We'll cut him or drop him any time we want to. We're still running the Enquirer . . . We've cut Pegler too, and he got mad at us. But he got over his mad. Winchell didn...
...last week, the hosannas were being drowned in a chorus of pleas for caution. The nation's pundits, from Walter Lippmann to Max Lerner and on down to Westbrook Pegler, urged the U.S. to go slow on televising public affairs. Judge Samuel Leibowitz feared that, without safeguards, TV might become "a sinister weapon of slander...