Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performance as President, is simply a massive compilation of every criticism that anyone has ever written about any of the Kennedys, tied loosely together by Lasky's own biased and bitter generalizations. It presents, with equal weight, criticism from the Chicago Tribune and the New Republic, from Westbrook Pegler and Eleanor Roosevelt, from the New York Times and Variety, from Walter Lippmann and Nikita Khrushchev...
...guests wound up forced to sip their cocktails in the ladies' room. But nobody seemed to mind, for the conversation was lively, the filet mignon was good, and the guest of honor was unusually convivial. The occasion was a testimonial dinner in Manhattan last week for terrible-tempered Westbrook Pegler...
JOHN KILPATRICK Westbrook, Conn...
Through the years, TIME readers have been encouraged to volunteer their own nominations, which frequently agree with our selection, but sometimes don't. (There have been years when Westbrook Pegler was the name most often submitted. TIME never found Peg's mark - for good or ill - that indelible on any year's news...
...surliest bear was back on the growl. From Tucson, where he holed up after Hearst's King Features syndicate fired him last summer for daring to attack the boss (he wrote that William Randolph Hearst Jr. was wanting in "character, ability or loyalty''), onetime Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler. 68, let it be known that he had found a new vent for his wrath. Beginning in February, said Pegler, he will write one political column a month for American Opinion-the house organ of the John Birch Society...