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Peppered by criticism in what he called "our sabotage press," Truman frequently read the newspapers and blew his cork. He lectured reporters on the sins of their profession, calling William Randolph Hearst "the No. 1 whore monger of our time" and Columnist Westbrook Pegler "the greatest character assassin in the United States." Other public figures earned his unposted scorn, including "Squirrel Head Nixon" and Senator Estes Kefauver, whom Truman called "Cow-fever." Explaining his decision to relieve General Douglas MacArthur of command during the Korean War, he mentioned the "insubordination of God's right hand man." During...
...Smith, 76, Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist whose wry wit and pursuit of what he called "the pure crystal stream of the declarative sentence" made him the most influential and admired sportswriter of our time; in Stamford, Conn. Smith, in the great line of such sportswriter-debunkers as Ring Lardner, Westbrook Pegler and Damon Runyon, kept his subjects at arm's length. "These are still games little boys play," he said. "The future of civilization is not at stake." He gave a strong hint of what was to become his skewed, lifelong approach to a story on his first sports assignment...
...York lawyer whose reportage can make the driest case read like The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. Two previous books based on his own courtroom experiences, My Life in Court and The Jury Returns, were longtime bestsellers. Nizer represented Journalist Quentin Reynolds in a successful libel suit against Columnist Westbrook Pegler, and the account was exciting enough to be made into a Broadway play and a TV drama. The present volume suffers greatly by comparison. Part autobiography, part a philosophical guide to the law, it is mostly leftovers, with only a few fresh morsels to offer...
With each passing year she became more the beloved public figure she deserved to be. There were still a few catcalls. Westbrook Pegler never stopped calling her "la boca grande," but fewer listened. In 1949 Cardinal Spellman threw an alarming tantrum over a "My Day" column opposing federal aid to parochial schools. He declared her conduct "unworthy of an American mother" but journeyed to Hyde Park personally to make peace when he realized that his fulminations were helping opposition to Catholic political candidates. Mrs. Roosevelt recorded the scene in a typical, ineffable column: "Miss Thompson came and said: 'Cardinal...
...stuck out his job since the 1970 elections (he had three predecessors) mainly because he believes in what he is doing. He grew up in New Orleans and attended Tulane University, where he wrote a column for the school newspaper. Says Gold: "I wanted to be the Westbrook Pegler of my generation." Instead he became a lawyer, a public relations man and finally, in 1964, assistant press secretary to Barry Goldwater. Even before he met the Vice President, Gold wrote a still unpublished book entitled The Enemies He Has Made: The Media Morphosis of Spiro T. Agnew, which analyzed Agnew...