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...Apoplectic because Congress had not begun to act until the President gave them a signal, Columnist Westbrook Pegler sputtered: "A sorry counterfeit of a legislative body. . . . You have impaired and damn near destroyed your own prestige and with it the American form of Government...
...then he was confined more or less successfully to the editorial page. The news columns were largely in the hands of City Editor Robert Morton Lee (now dead) and Managing Editor Edward Scott Beck (now on the shelf). Under them the Tribune staff once included such names as Westbrook Pegler, Percy Hammond, Ring Lardner, Burton Rascoe. Present Managing Editor Pat Maloney, who flew with Rickenbacker and wears a Phi Beta Kappa key from Dartmouth, is a hard worker who got his training under Beck and Lee but lacks their independent thinking...
...Convention gag: "Everybody look under the table to see if Pegler is there...
...Club demanded Ben Lear's removal. The Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel printed a letter from an Army mother ("Maybe General Lear got his rule books mixed and read the one for Russia") and the paper invited its readers to say more about the Memphis Incident. Cantankerous Westbrbok Pegler defended Ben Lear on the probability that "the obstreperous haberdashers and grocers" of the Quartermaster outfit had used lewd language to Memphis' shorts-clad girls-an unfair, and also incorrect assumption...
...Schmeling, till he turned out to be alive. But last week's outburst was an emotional flood the likes of which few oldtimers could remember. Only attempt to keep his feet in the pool of tears was made by onetime Sportswriter Westbrook ("Old Nasty") Pegler. Wrote he in the New York World-Telegram...