Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Editor Seymour, whose two papers overflow with columnists (e.g., Drew Pearson, Winchell, Walter Lippmann, Mrs. Roosevelt et al.), got down to cases on Pearson-"vindictive, vicious, a soapboxer. But I'd say that he's a good policeman and digger." Of Westbrook Pegler: "[He] is not in...
But Pearson and Pegler had little time for such mere jabs from outsiders last week; they were too busy shouting worse names, kicking and gouging each other and yelling "foul." All this, cried Pearson in aggrieved tones, was due to a fact that Pearson unblushingly made public: Pegler had violated...
A few weeks ago Pearson filed a second libel suit after Pegler had called him a "lying blackguard." Last week as part proof of the let's-be-nice agreement, Pearson produced a lamblike 1946 note to him from Roaring Lion Pegler: "Let bygones be bygones . . . That is my...
At that, Pegler exploded into print with a far different version of the 1946 settlement. It was Pearson, he sneeringly charged, who had "begged and pleaded" to be permitted to withdraw his (first) suit without trial. To show that he had not given up one bit of his overworked function...
"The longer the editorial," wrote Grimes, "the fewer the readers . . . It is much easier to write a long editorial on a single subject than two very short ones on two subjects . . .