Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrote President Truman: "I never read or listen to Walter Winchell, Westbrook Pegler, George Sokolsky or John O'Donnell, or any of the liars for the simple reason that it just stirs you up for no good purpose." Added O'Donnell, with his usual choleric pride; "After all, when you have won against such professional, high-grade, adroit and skillful liars as the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, for example, you shouldn't be lured into controversy by clumsy amateur insulters...
From Hearst's New York Journal-American Westbrook Pegler's terrible-tempered column was conspicuously missing one day last week. Reason: as often happens, the column was deemed too hot to print...
...Canadian Catholic newspapers. Said the News Service: "Official sources in the Vatican stated categorically that no Holy See official has been authorized to treat with anyone concerning union problems . . . The same sources had no knowledge whatever of the possibility of the so-called 'official' mentioned in the Westbrook Pegler story, and they disavowed any Holy See association with the Pegler attack on U.S. unions and union leaders...
...celebrate his homecoming after a four-month tour of Europe, Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler last week penned a "Patriotic Pome" for his column. While it failed to prove conclusively either that travel is broadening or that Peg is even a bottom-rung poetaster, it did give him a chance for a rare and sardonic bow to his critics. Excerpts...
...divorce, she was the great & good friend in his last years of life-weary Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (and claims that she was the inspiration for the Hollywood girl in The Last Tycoon). After Fitzgerald died, Sheilah was married for six years to British aircraft production Expert Trevor Westbrook, and bore him two children: Frances, now nine, and Robert, six. With the children, Sheilah lives on "something under $50,000" a year in a pleasant stucco house only four doors away from Queen Louella Parsons, with whom she is on seemingly friendly terms...