Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called "TIME Views the News." The voice you hear will be the same Westbrook Van Voorhis you have so often heard on March of Time broadcasts and newsreels ("TIME Marches On!"). And it will be presented by the Blue Network over more than 100 stations Monday through Friday at 4:30 E.W.T...
...most substantial approvals of Pyle came from the Youngstown Vindicator, which used his column this spring when Columnist Westbrook Pegler was on vacation. When Pegler returned, the Vindicator kept Pyle...
...Pudgy, genial Hal O'Flaherty, 52, whom Columnist Westbrook Pegler once called "a Model T, or primitive, Americanist," recently took leave of absence from his job as Chicago Daily News managing editor to go back to an old love. A war correspondent in World War I and head of the News's European staff in 1924, O'Flaherty will leave for the Southwest Pacific to report World War II, replacing the News's George Weller, Pulitzer Prizewinner, who is ill. New News managing editor: Lloyd Downs Lewis, 52, a jack-of-many-newspaper-trades (book reviewer...
...getting tired of the attempts by Westbrook Pegler and others to try to "debunk" our national anthem (TIME, March...
...ought at least keep its author paying stiff-collar taxes. Like Totem Pole it consists of the sort of talk that might be had, by the hour, from any boozy, bawdy, abundant newspaperman. Such talk is dull in spots, complacently boorish in others, childish in some of its conclusions (Westbrook Pegler, though mentally "the human saddle sore" is as a prose stylist "one of the great writers of our day"). At its worst the book has at least the charm of its dialect: the dialect of the vigorous, honest, somewhat cornfed gentlemen of the press. At its best...