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Word: pilat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pegler's only biographer, former New York Post Reporter Oliver Pilat, suggests that Pegler's tough-guy cynicism was only a professional pose, wholly out of character with his personal feelings of shyness, insecurity and educational inadequacy. He vented his frustrations at the typewriter. Those who knew him best preferred the private Pegler. "Somebody should take the hide off Peg," wrote Fellow Columnist Heywood Broun when Pegler was on top, "because the stuff inside is so much better than the varnished surface." Pegler's professional hide seemed mainly to toughen as he grew older. When it finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnists: Master of the Epithet | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

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