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...played local angles to the hilt. Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 190,789), on the other hand, ran only routine service stories on the Senate investigation. still had not given the story top Page One play. The P-I diligently killed its syndicated Drew Pearson and Westbrook Pegler columns whenever they criticized Beck...
...James C. Hagerty) that President Eisenhower had taken a hand in the "giveaway" of Oregon timberland to Al Sarena Mines, Inc. (TIME, Feb. 6). Next, after five expensive years of legal maneuvers, Pearson quietly dropped his $5,100,000 damage and libel suits against Senator Joe McCarthy, Columnists Westbrook Pegler, Fulton Lewis Jr., and six others (TIME, March 12, 1951). At week's end, having thus turned both cheeks, Pearson was slapped with a $250,000 libel suit by Oregon Democratic Politician Lew Wallace, who charged Pearson with falsely implicating him in the timberland "giveaway...
Died. Julia Harpman Pegler, 61, wife of Columnist Westbrook Pegler, whom she married in 1922; of a heart attack; in Rome...
Nearly six years after he first brought a libel suit against Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler, former War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds last week got ready to collect. The U.S. Supreme Court ended the long legal battle by refusing to review a New York federal jury's $175,001 award to Reynolds (TIME, July 5, 1954 et seq.), after Pegler branded him a nudist and coward...
...Pegler will not be out of pocket: under his contract Hearst is liable for the tab, which will run to more than $200,000, counting attorneys' fees and 6% interest from the day of judgment. Nor is the fat award all pure gravy for Reynolds. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service now has a lien against him for $40,000 for back taxes, also expects to collect income tax on the whole sum. But Reynolds' lawyer believes that the sum is taxfree; thus the award may land in court again...