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Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt, who is never out of the news-or hot water-very long, was in both last week. Splenetic Columnist Westbrook Pegler, an old Roosevelt-hater, pulled the cork on a long bottled-up story. There was much of Pegler foam & fume; there was also a muddy brew...
Warm Week. But the whole thing opened again with a bang with Columnist Pegler's disclosures. The almost forgotten rearguard action which A. & P. has been fighting with the U.S. Government became front-page news again. Last week A. & P. and its public relations firm of Carl Byoir & Associates were sweating through a federal trial in Danville, Ill., charged with violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. John Hartford, home in Valhalla, N.Y., sweated through a golf game, spluttered: "I'll have to talk to my lawyer...
Congressmen wanted a lot of things explained. One thing which needed explaining: why Hartford had dished out $200,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, whom he had never met before. With his sights on Brigadier General Roosevelt, Pegler suggested: "Hartford had a profound respect for the office of President of the U.S. and may have thought it was an honor to be asked to assist the son of a President." With its sights on "all concerned," the Washington Post commented acidly: "The precise nature of Mr. Hartford's interest in making the loan is open to serious question...
Wisdom & Poison. Nudging these working newsmen for space were big-name specialists, with varying claims to international wisdom: Westbrook Pegler, George Fielding Eliot, Ludwig Bemelmans, Drew Pearson, Ely Culbertson, Orson Welles. Mixed in were avowed propagandists, ranging from Edgar Ansel Mowrer (who was pleased to call the conference "the most important human gathering since the Last Supper") to the New York Daily News's poison penman John O'Donnell. Even before the conference opened, O'Donnell said that "nothing ever was staged in this generation on such a scale of mass hypocrisy and global double cross...
...been a faithful Hearstling, for the past five years general manager of the 17 Hearst papers. With the death of Joe Connolly (TIME, April 30) he fell heir to two more jobs : running Hearst's International News Service and giant King Features (33 com ics, Winchell, Pegler...