Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have families. Unlike most people, columnists often parade their close relatives before their public, to make a point or fill a stick. Constant readers know about the mothers of Hugh Johnson and Hey wood Broun, about Dorothy Thompson's son and Eleanor Roosevelt's husband. Last week Westbrook Pegler had a good story to tell about his father...
Arthur Pegler's son Westbrook could tell many another story of his old man, for the elder Pegler is a living example of the oldtime newspaperman. He went to work for the London Daily Telegraph before he was 20 and quit the New York Daily Mirror year before last at 73. In 1884 he landed in New York from a freighter and headed west. For three years he rode the range in the Dakotas and Iowa, then covered the trial of a brewer for the murder of a Methodist temperance leader who had put over local option in Sioux...
Since his retirement Newspaperman Pegler has been living in Madison, Conn, and writing (on a double-keyboard Smith-Premier typewriter he acquired in 1893) a book of reminiscences tentatively entitled 50,000 Deadlines. His language, both written and spoken, reveals the origin of his son Westbrook's self-consciously polysyllabic style. Arthur Pegler finds people parsimonious instead of stingy, takes a libation in preference to a drink. He speaks of a publisher he once worked for as "that ineffable screw...
...After the Lindsay incident Columnist Westbrook Pegler tartly reminded the press: "It will be worth remembering . . . that they are not coming to visit the American newspapers...
Next, Mr. Ickes got down to the cases of the "snipers and guttersnipers." Snipers were General Hugh Johnson and Westbrook Pegler. "While Johnson is against only those numerous public officials who are bungling affairs that he could so competently manage, Pegler is against everything and everybody according to his whim." Chief guttersniper in Mr. Ickes' category was "Mr. Munchausen," identified in advance copies of the speech as Paul Mallon, although CBS induced Mr. Ickes not to call names over the air. Several of Columnist Mallon's items about Mr. Ickes, Mr. Ickes bluntly charged, were lies...