Word: pegler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sound from the Neck. To nobody's great surprise, the lone journalistic voice raised in all-out defense of a ban on pretrial reporting came from Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who is having his own court troubles (see below). Said Pegler in his column: "The contention that [such a ban] would violate freedom of the press is only a neck-sound unrelated to the heart of the subject...
...play The Front Page would have it, nothing can stop a good Hearstling from getting his story. Last week ex-Hearstling Quentin Reynolds, who is suing Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler for $500,000 for calling him an "absentee war correspondent" (TIME, May 24), told how he stayed true to The Front Page tradition as a Collier's war correspondent...
...late Heywood Broun was fond of calling Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler "light-heavyweight champion of the upperdog." Even after Broun died, terrible-tempered Westbrook Pegler did not forgive him, or his close circle of newspaper friends. Last week the ancient feud erupted in the trial of a $500,000 libel suit. Defendant: Columnist Pegler and Hearst corporations, which syndicate and publish his column. Plaintiff: Broun's old friend, onetime War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds, who five years ago invited Pegler's wrath by reviewing a biography of Broun for the New York Herald Tribune. Pegler took part...
...malicious lie" and recounted his frontline war record. A deposition was introduced from Press Lord Beaverbrook praising Reynolds' "splendid pieces of reporting," while Eisenhower's wartime naval aide, Captain Harry Butcher, pointed out that Reynolds' reputation as a correspondent won him"the confidence of Ike." Pegler's charge that Reynolds went"nuding along the public road[with] a wench . . . absolutely raw," was fantastic, said Reynolds' lawyer, "since Mr. Reynolds has an allergy to sunshine which makes his skin break...
...courtroom Broun's biographer, Dale Kramer, offered his hand to Pegler, was rebuffed when Pegler thundered:"I don't want to shake hands with you. You're a bastard." "You're the same, " answered Kramer. Pegler hastily summoned a court attendant, pointed at Kramer and said: "This man was threatening me." Then the two were haled into the judge's chamber and ordered not to speak to one another again in the courthouse...