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...Force Base, Calif., following an emergency flight from Manila. Covering the war for Collier's, Reynolds poured his romantic Irish heart into vivid, highly personal combat reports from North Africa to Dieppe, winning high praise from such fans as Winston Churchill and such scorn from Columnist Westbrook Pegler that he won a $175,001 libel judgment from...
...CASE OF LIBEL, adapted by Henry Denker from Louis (My Life in Court) Nizer's account of the Quentin Reynolds-Westbrook Pegler libel fracas, is tame theater fare, but courtroom drama buffs may relish it, and Van Heflin is a peppery paladin of justice...
...Case of Libel has been adapted by Henry Denker from a chapter in Lawyer Louis Nizer's bestseller, My Life in Court. The case, though veiled, is Newsman Quentin Reynolds' winning libel suit against Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Since the element of suspense is nonexistent, the result is fairly tame and lethargic, except for those who relish every predictable cliche of courtroom stagecraft...
...From Pegler to Khrushchev. The new volume, which devotes only 83 pages to Kennedy's performance as President, is simply a massive compilation of every criticism that anyone has ever written about any of the Kennedys, tied loosely together by Lasky's own biased and bitter generalizations. It presents, with equal weight, criticism from the Chicago Tribune and the New Republic, from Westbrook Pegler and Eleanor Roosevelt, from the New York Times and Variety, from Walter Lippmann and Nikita Khrushchev...
Hairdos & Dog Hairs. Asks Lasky: "Was there ever any political leader who devoted so much time worrying about his hairdo?" He quotes Newsweek: "Kennedy carries a white manicurist's pencil to make his fingernails whiter." And Westbrook Pegler: "Kennedy looks at people through half-shut eyes. If a guy can't look me square in the eye, I don't trust him." (Almost 200 pages later, Lyndon Johnson is quoted: "I can tell a man by looking in his eyes. I looked in John Kennedy's eyes and I liked what I saw.") Lasky even quotes...