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...hard time covering the story. There were not enough badges for half the newsmen who wanted them. One newsman, told by Republican Chairman Guy Gabrielson that all his press tickets were gone, got some right away from Chicago's Democratic Boss Jack Arvey. Terrible-tempered Columnist Westbrook Pegler was so outraged by the back-row seat he was assigned that he denounced the "leftwing standing committee that put me way out here in left field." Snapped back Gallery Boss Harold Beckley, who also runs the U.S. Senate's press gallery: "He could write the stuff...
...other journalistic hazards far from the convention hall itself. A column by Scripps-Howard's Robert Ruark ("Doug was a dud as a keynoter") was stopped after it turned up alongside an editorial praising General MacArthur's speech as "A Call to Arms." Hearst papers killed a Pegler column saying Eisenhower is "a stupid man [and] I will do all I can to prevent his election...
...place have come cleaner headline type, fewer screaming bannerlines and a more up-to-date, readable layout. Gigantic cartoons and other boiler plate that once poured out of Hearst headquarters are now passed up by editors whenever they will, and even such well-entrenched Hearst columnists as Westbrook Pegler and George Sokolsky may be dropped or trimmed as editors desire...
...serves up Fair-Dealing, "see here now!" editorials along with a leavening mixture of sex, sin and revelation. By now, the Post's formula for revelation has become pat: a continuous series of wordy but provocative sketches of favorite Post whipping boys, e.g., Senator McCarthy, Walter Winchell, Westbrook Pegler. When U.S.A. Confidential began making headlines and the bestseller lists, Wechsler spotted ideal subjects for his next serial scorcher: the book's authors, the New York Mirror's editor, Jack Lait, and its nightclub columnist, Lee Mortimer, who are already defendants in twelve libel suits for their offhand...
Wrote President Truman: "I never read or listen to Walter Winchell, Westbrook Pegler, George Sokolsky or John O'Donnell, or any of the liars for the simple reason that it just stirs you up for no good purpose." Added O'Donnell, with his usual choleric pride; "After all, when you have won against such professional, high-grade, adroit and skillful liars as the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, for example, you shouldn't be lured into controversy by clumsy amateur insulters...