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...late Heywood Broun was fond of calling Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler "light-heavyweight champion of the upperdog." Even after Broun died, terrible-tempered Westbrook Pegler did not forgive him, or his close circle of newspaper friends. Last week the ancient feud erupted in the trial of a $500,000 libel suit. Defendant: Columnist Pegler and Hearst corporations, which syndicate and publish his column. Plaintiff: Broun's old friend, onetime War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds, who five years ago invited Pegler's wrath by reviewing a biography of Broun for the New York Herald Tribune. Pegler took part...
...malicious lie" and recounted his frontline war record. A deposition was introduced from Press Lord Beaverbrook praising Reynolds' "splendid pieces of reporting," while Eisenhower's wartime naval aide, Captain Harry Butcher, pointed out that Reynolds' reputation as a correspondent won him"the confidence of Ike." Pegler's charge that Reynolds went"nuding along the public road[with] a wench . . . absolutely raw," was fantastic, said Reynolds' lawyer, "since Mr. Reynolds has an allergy to sunshine which makes his skin break...
...called and asked Goff not to press for criminal action, but to handle the case within the Post Office Department. But by that time it was too late; the case was already being pushed by U.S. Attorney Madison Graves in Nevada. (Vacationing at the Tucson home of Columnist Westbrook Pegler last week, McCarthy said that he had never seen the Greenspun column, but that his office might have sent it to the Post Office Department...
...change the Post's editorial policies or its basic format. While it has taken on some Times-Herald features, including a weekly column by Maryland McCormick, the colonel's wife (TIME, March 8), it has already dropped from the new combined paper such features as Columnist Westbrook Pegler and sensational, slapdash Labor Columnist Victor Riesel. Graham expects relatively clear sailing ahead. Said he: "(Buying the TH) was the culmination of Eugene Meyer's effort for the Post for over 20 years...
...since the days when Red Grange was roaming the gridirons has ex-Sports-writer Westbrook Pegler found much to admire in men on the public stage. But last week Hearst Columnist Pegler, on a trip to the Dominican Republic (pop. 2,200,000), found a new hero: Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In a series on Trujillo and the country he rules, Pegler wrote...