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...last couple of years, Pegler has largely confined himself to innocuous columns about George Spelvin, a Peglerian prototype of an average American: grumpy, antisocial and suspicious as a kulak. George still has a small, eccentric following, and chances are that he (and Pegler) will be kept by some papers even though he has been dropped by Hearst. But the demand is likely to be small. By week's end, the Hearst papers had received only a handful of letters and a few phone calls protesting the loss of their onetime titan...
Westbrook Pegler got into the act with a pious statement of un-Peglerian mildness: "It is a great tragedy that in this awful hour the people of the U.S. must accept . . . the nasty malice of a President whom Bernard Baruch . . . called a rude, uncouth, ignorant man. Let us pray...
...Dear Mr. Putrilluh." But New Yorkers did not share the Peglerian appetite for musicless meals. Business dropped in Manhattan's huge, noise-deadened ballrooms. Out-of-town affiliates of struck New York hotels were hit by sympathy walkouts. Chicago's Palmer House, part of the Hilton chain, bravely put on its Empire Room show without an orchestra. The handful of customers groaned...
Last week's Pegler balloting brought out as many votes as a Tallahassee city election. Final score: keep Pegler, 637; dump him, 551. Having given Pegler an un-Peglerian (fair) trial, the Democrat said that it would go on publishing the column...
...wrote Indignant Citizen to the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat. Indignant Citizen had been roused by a characteristic Peglerian display of calculated bad temper, in which Pegler accused Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal of "a dangerous conspiracy . . . to abolish the freedom of the whole people." The Tallahassee paper, well aware that everybody talks about Pegler but nobody does anything about him, said it would take a vote if enough readers demanded one. The demands quickly filled three columns. Among them...
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