Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Arthur James Pegler, 98, a newspaperman known affectionately as "Chicken" to his son, Columnist Westbrook Pegler, famed as a rough-and-tumble reporter on Hearst's rough-and-tumble Chicago American from 1900 to 1915; in a Tucson, Ariz, nursing home...
Camelot-on-Hudson. To Fowler, the Manhattan of his day was Camelot, and his fellow newsmen-Grantland Rice, Westbrook Pegler, Heywood Broun, Arthur Brisbane-were knights of the round table, which was usually a bar. Fowler's personal idol and friend was Alfred Damon Runyon. Despite his Broadway camaraderie, Runyon was a brooding, lonely man, and there were distinct traces of rube in his makeup. He believed that to count as a New York know-it-all, he had to unearth a champion heavyweight. Over the years he maintained a series of fighters who ate like lions and fought...
...eight Crimson oars who brought home the silver will be returning for action next spring. They are bow, Ted Westbrook; 2, Jon French; 4, Bruce Konrad; 5, Boake Christensen; 7, Dave Richards, captain; and stroke, Tony Goodman...
...pleasant to know." Walter Lippmann paid tribute to "his youth, his sharp and trained intelligence, and his undoubted popular magnetism." Even the New York Post's sour-tempered Murray Kempton broke down and confessed that the young man from Boston was "an engaging fellow"-thereby leaving Westbrook Pegler almost alone to carry the dissent: "A hard, selfish politician with no warm emotional ties...