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...celebrate his homecoming after a four-month tour of Europe, Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler last week penned a "Patriotic Pome" for his column. While it failed to prove conclusively either that travel is broadening or that Peg is even a bottom-rung poetaster, it did give him a chance for a rare and sardonic bow to his critics. Excerpts...
Westbrook Pegler, a Hearst columnist, is fond of recalling that 15 years ago the American Legion gave him a plaque for striking "some blows for 'Americanism.' " Last week Pegler struck some blows at the Legion...
...taken [him] to task"-and why? Just because he had reported when he was in Europe recently what any fool could plainly see: that U.S. union men are working with the Government to deliver Western Europe into the hands of socialism. The people who dare to disagree with Pegler's choleric omniscience are no ordinary fools. Nevertheless, in this case, said Peg, the facts should be plain, even "should be known to the shallow politicians of the Legion in their jealous competition for trashy publicity to promote their insurance business, their public-relations mills and their paltry aspirations...
...Charles Addans White. 2. Westbrook Pegler. 3. E. B. White 4. James Thurber...
Miss Davies has opinions of her own on what is good and bad in the Hearst press. For one thing, she has no use for Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Said she, in the most surprising (to Hearst readers) statement of the week: "Both W.R. and I always had great respect for Eleanor Roosevelt. She is a great woman . . . When Pegler started hacking at Mrs. Roosevelt day after day, it got boring and annoying . . . W.R. wired Pegler many times to cut it out; each time Pegler laid it on thicker . . . I never read his stuff any more...