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...referred to as the "so-called Constitutional Hall." Tickets were labeled "Admit One Anti-Communist." On hand were South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt, the hapless chairman of the Army-McCarthy hearings; John Maragon, convicted five-percenter, sporting an "I'm for Joe" button; Columnist Westbrook Pegler; and New York's ex-Congressman Ham Fish and Montana's ex-Senator Burton K. Wheeler, relics of another age. Throughout the rally, the vice commander of the Wall Street American Legion auxiliary proudly clutched an autographed picture of Roy Cohn...
...onetime Communist and Daily Worker movie critic, Rushmore got his start at the Journal-American doing a repentant series on how he was "duped by false pictures of the Soviet Utopia." After that his exposes of party-liners he had known were often spread across Page One. Columnist Westbrook Pegler called him "one of the most effective enemies of treason in American journalism." To Senator Joe McCarthy, who measures his praise carefully, he was "one of our outstanding Americans at this time...
...Cassandra" of the London Daily Mirror, biggest daily (circ. 4,535,687) in the world, owl-shaped, sharp-tongued William Neil Connor, 45, is the hardest-hitting and most-quoted columnist in Britain. Cassandra combines the terrible temper of a Westbrook Pegler with the calculated irreverence of an H. L. Mencken. "It is a pity," Sir Winston Churchill once said, "that so able a writer should show himself so dominated by malevolence." Even his own paper often finds his comments hard to take, but suffers them because of his circulation-building appeal. Says Mirror Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp: "Cassandra disagrees...
...Judge Weinfeld, who will rule in a fortnight, lets the verdict stand, Pegler will probably take the case to a higher court...
...Among other dailies that publish Pegler's column: Miami Herald, Cincinnati Enquirer, Nashville Tennessean, Washington News...