Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Westbrook Pegler, a Hearst columnist, is fond of recalling that 15 years ago the American Legion gave him a plaque for striking "some blows for 'Americanism.' " Last week Pegler struck some blows at the Legion...
...Charles Addans White. 2. Westbrook Pegler. 3. E. B. White 4. James Thurber...
Miss Davies has opinions of her own on what is good and bad in the Hearst press. For one thing, she has no use for Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Said she, in the most surprising (to Hearst readers) statement of the week: "Both W.R. and I always had great respect for Eleanor Roosevelt. She is a great woman . . . When Pegler started hacking at Mrs. Roosevelt day after day, it got boring and annoying . . . W.R. wired Pegler many times to cut it out; each time Pegler laid it on thicker . . . I never read his stuff any more...
...last week, the hosannas were being drowned in a chorus of pleas for caution. The nation's pundits, from Walter Lippmann to Max Lerner and on down to Westbrook Pegler, urged the U.S. to go slow on televising public affairs. Judge Samuel Leibowitz feared that, without safeguards, TV might become "a sinister weapon of slander...
...extent of $350,000 damages. For good measure, Pearson demanded $250,000 for being "painfully grabbed by the neck and kicked in the groin" by McCarthy in their December brawl at Washington's Sulgrave Club. Pearson rounded off the suit by demanding $2.5 million more from McCarthy, Columnists Westbrook Pegler and Fulton Lewis Jr., the Washington Times-Herald, and seven other individuals, charging that they had conspired to hold him up to "public scorn and ridicule" and scare away potential sponsors for his radio program. It was Pearson's third suit against Pegler. He withdrew the first...