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...last week needled the Cincinnati Enquirer for disagreeing with him three years ago, and warned it against cutting his columns. Snapped Managing Editor Everett Boyd: "We'll cut him or drop him any time we want to. We're still running the Enquirer . . . We've cut Pegler too, and he got mad at us. But he got over his mad. Winchell didn...
...last week, the hosannas were being drowned in a chorus of pleas for caution. The nation's pundits, from Walter Lippmann to Max Lerner and on down to Westbrook Pegler, urged the U.S. to go slow on televising public affairs. Judge Samuel Leibowitz feared that, without safeguards, TV might become "a sinister weapon of slander...
Terrible-tempered Westbrook Pegler proved to be too hot to handle last week for the New York Journal-American, his No. 1 outlet. It killed a Pegler column warning readers not to buy U.S. bonds, although the Washington. Times-Herald and some other papers thought it fit to print. Wrote Peg: "Any corporation . . . promoting the purchase of Government bonds on the pretense that such bonds are good investments, is either a party to a confidence game or a victim of stupid management. In either case I am not kidded...
...During World War II, the Treasury importuned me several times to act as runner for a swindle which it was operating . . . [i.e.) the sale of Government bonds]." But Pegler did not intend to make the same mistake again: "In honesty, I can't, because the value of the dollar is going steadily down . . . The dollar ... is so cheap now that it won't buy a meal in a second-rate restaurant ... Is it terribly unpatriotic of me to go on this way, disillusioning our people about Government bonds...
...damages. For good measure, Pearson demanded $250,000 for being "painfully grabbed by the neck and kicked in the groin" by McCarthy in their December brawl at Washington's Sulgrave Club. Pearson rounded off the suit by demanding $2.5 million more from McCarthy, Columnists Westbrook Pegler and Fulton Lewis Jr., the Washington Times-Herald, and seven other individuals, charging that they had conspired to hold him up to "public scorn and ridicule" and scare away potential sponsors for his radio program. It was Pearson's third suit against Pegler. He withdrew the first...