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...fact," she wrote, "we were never close to the White House. We were invited only to the regular large receptions, as we had been since President Harding's time, and to a couple of dinners when Ray was president of the Gridiron Club. . . . Other newspapermen-even Westbrook Pegler-were invited for a weekend to Hyde Park, but never the Clappers...
...president had just taken over-35-year-old William Schuman, prolific young symphonist whose latest performed composition was a score for the Ballet Theatre's Freudian ballet, Undertow, which is all about a sex murder. Said Schuman of his new job at Juilliard: "It's like Westbrook Pegler taking over PM." Actually it was more like a New Republic editor taking over the Saturday Evening Post...
...with Europe's war over, they had long since changed their minds: most of them wanted to stay in the U.S. An Oswego liaison committee and Chairman Samuel Dickstein of the House Immigration and Naturalization Committee agreed that they should stay. But many Oswegonians (plus Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler) thought they should be held to the letter of the agreement: they had said they would go back, now let them...
Westbrook Pegler, most glowering of columnists, suddenly bared to his readers a gentle, wistful soul. Sourball Pegler confessed that he had found his "stock of merry jape and ready wit" quite low, and was "considering steps to correct this. . . ." Whether his boss (Hearst) had told him to get off his Johnny-one-note of hate toward labor leaders, foreigners and New Dealers, or whether Pegler had decided all by himself to change his tune, no one knew. Wrote Pegler...
Boettiger tossed out all Hearst diatribes against his father-in-law (as no other Hearst editor ever dared do), chopped up Pegler's copy at will, hired Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day" column, set wife Anna to writing a corny, folksy "homemaker's" column. P-I circulation spurted; so did advertising. The Boettigers became Cham ber of Commerce favorites, because they helped bring big federal construction projects to Seattle. Their New Deal editorials won them labor's friendship ; their obvious love for the Pacific Northwest won almost everybody else. The hardest-bitten skeptics came to agree...