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...Junior," growled the country's angriest columnist at a meeting of the Anti-Communist Christian Crusade in Tulsa. "I have to suit his brattish conniptions." He is "lacking in character, ability or loyalty." The invective was familiar, but the target was new. This time Hearst-man Westbrook Pegler was attacking neither a Roosevelt, nor a labor leader, nor Harry Truman. He was taking on his own boss, William Randolph Hearst...
...audience loved it (although several frowning ladies walked out when, during subsequent speeches, Columnist Westbrook Pegler began to tell how he once "got loaded'' in the course of some journalistic duties). Up between each of the speeches popped Hargis. "Friends, I want you to carry as many of these books home as you can," he said, waving a copy of his Communist America . . . Must It Be? "There's 15 chapters, 200 pages, and they're four for a dollar. Now a lot of you people say you can't afford this anti-Communist literature...
...once had the entire television industry quivering in fear, but until the Faulk case no one had ever had the courage to bite back. Faulk's attorney was Louis Nizer, who had earlier helped Quentin Reynolds win a $175,001 verdict in his 1954 suit against Columnist Westbrook Pegler, the highest award ever made by a jury in a libel case...
...terrible-tempered Columnist Westbrook Pegler fired off these charges against his onetime friend Author-Journalist Quentin Reynolds, in a tirade printed in 186 newspapers read by 12 million people. Reynolds retained Manhattan Attorney Louis Nizer to press charges for libel. Five years later, the case finally came to trial. Nizer forced Pegler to admit that he had once written that "it was all right to create fiction about a real person, because if you do it several years after it happens, nobody will know the difference anyhow." During the pretrial examinations, he read Pegler passages from unnamed authors. "Communist line...
Married. Westbrook Pegler, 67, cantankerous Hearst columnist divorced by his second wife three weeks ago; and Maud Towart, 43, his former secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; in Midland, Texas...