Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offer, turned it down. Even if Colyumist Broun had lumbered away from the World-Telegram Publisher Roy Howard would have had good reason to feel pleased with the results of last week's deals in colyumists. He had conducted a quiet but more effective raid of his own: Westbrook Pegler, famed colyumist for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, whose "Speaking Out" has contained some of the most pungent wit as well as some of the best critical sports reporting in the U. S. for the last eight years, will start writing for the Scripps-Howard United Feature Syndicate two months...
Until three years ago, when the New York Evening Post began to print his work, Westbrook Pegler was better known in Chicago than in the East. Since 1920 he has lived at Pound Ridge, Conn. Possibly because most of his neighbors have remodeled Colonial farmhouses, Pegler's is an adaptation of a Bavarian chalet. Slight, wiry, sandy-haired, he plays atrocious golf, drives his car like the coal man. Before their marriage his attractive wife was Julia Harpman, star crime reporter on the New York Daily News. His father, Arthur Pegler, is still the New York Daily Mirror...
...William Adams who speaks as two Presidents. Roosevelt and von Hindenburg, Jack Smart who speaks as Huey Long; Ted de Corsia who does Mussolini and Herbert Hoover. Alfred Shirley is three British subjects, Ramsay MacDonald, the Prince of Wales and Mahatma Gandhi. Marian Hopkinson is Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt; Westbrook Van Voorhis, Hitler; Porter Hall, Stalin. Barbara Bruce is Frances Perkins and Mrs. James Roosevelt (the President's mother). Remains to be seen whether Pedro de Cordoba (ex-King Alfonso of Spain), John Battle (Vice President Garner) and Charles Slattery (Al Smith) will have much...
When Mrs. Helen Wills Moody fell ill last week of what her doctors called "sub-acute unstable fifth lumbar vertebrae symptoms" and what Sports Colyumist Westbrook Pegler called "a crick in her back," it looked alarming for the U. S. Wightman Cup team. The ablest substitute in sight was slim, brown Sarah Palfrey, a girl who has played the most graceful tennis in the U. S. for the last four years but who has always, out of some childish nervousness, failed to do her best in important matches. Last fortnight Sarah Palfrey beat U. S. Champion Helen Jacobs...
...comic strips about Gump, Winkle, Tracy et al., plus the sports comment of Westbrook Pegler and medical advice by Dr. William A. Evans, have long been features of the Post. All are syndicated by the Chicago Tribune* which is published by Editrix Patterson's famed brother & cousin (Patterson & McCormick). When the Post went into receiver ship its contracts were considered void, and features were bought on a week-to-week basis. At that point alert Mrs. Patterson stepped in, got the Tribune Syndicate to make an exclusive contract with the Herald for the comics & features, beginning this week. While...