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There were other journalistic hazards far from the convention hall itself. A column by Scripps-Howard's Robert Ruark ("Doug was a dud as a keynoter") was stopped after it turned up alongside an editorial praising General MacArthur's speech as "A Call to Arms." Hearst papers killed a Pegler column saying Eisenhower is "a stupid man [and] I will do all I can to prevent his election...
Scripps-Howard Columnist Robert Ruark heard about the discovery of 20 barrels of moonshine whisky on Bernard Baruch's South Carolina plantation, and thought he saw a chance to turn on a little fantasy for his readers...
Baruch was not amused, angrily wired Old Friend Ruark that their friendship was ended. Three days later, Humorist Ruark covered the course again, this time on hands & knees. "You see a man today," he wrote, "hip-deep in personal apology for one of those transgressions in judgment, I guess, where you hurt feelings unwittingly and people you love get mad at you. I undertook to kid [Baruch] a little and wound up crouched 'way back in his personal doghouse. I thought it exceedingly funny that somebody had snuck onto his properties . . . and started a liquor still ... I guess there...
...Never in all my born days," wrote Ruark, "did I romp into a city room and scream: 'Stop the presses, we're going to bust this town wide open!' I never turned up a hat in front, nor wore a press card in the band of said...
...Newspaperman Ruark has a short memory. In a 1946 letter to his syndicate, which was run as an ad, Ruark wrote that he had achieved "an amazing amount of scoops...