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...Hearst's chief baby sitter," Pegler went on, is Frank Conniff (Hearst's national news editor), and he characterized the pair as "juvenile delinquents." The immediate reason for Pegler's wrath: "I have received insolent, arrogant warnings that nothing unfavorable to the Kennedy...
Administration will be allowed out of New York where the censors sit." The Crusaders chortled heartily; Hearst & Co. did not. Last week, after 18 years with the Hearst chain, Pegler, 68, left. "The maximum tolerance is made in this organization for prima donnas," said Conniff, "but this has become personal...
...wonder is that Pegler lasted so long. The ultimate nonconformist, he came to hate almost everything he wrote about, from politics to literature to animals. Occasionally his tirades were hilarious ; more often they were simply ridiculous. No columnist in American history has heaped so much personal abuse on so many people over so long a period. "Liar," "Communist," "traitor," "parasite" were words that Pegler commonly used to describe most of the people he disliked...
Choice Venom. With a father's sure instinct, Arthur James Pegler. a Hearst reporter himself, forbade his son to go into journalism. But Westbrook heeded his father no more than he did anyone else. He quit high school to take a job with United...
...first, Pegler supported Franklin Roosevelt. He voted for F.D.R. in 1936 and called Eleanor Roosevelt the "greatest American woman." But he soon turned misanthropic. In columns that grew steadily more vitriolic, he referred to Roosevelt as a "feebleminded fuehrer," Eleanor as "La Boca Grande." He reserved his choicest venom for Harry Truman: "thin-lipped, a hater and not above offering you his hand to yank you off balance and work you over with a chair leg, pool cue or something out of his pocket." After the assassination attempt on Truman in 1950, Pegler berated "hypocrites" for getting excited. "I hope...