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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...
...call him Junior," growled the country's angriest columnist at a meeting of the Anti-Communist Christian Crusade in Tulsa. "I have to suit his brattish conniptions." He is "lacking in character, ability or loyalty." The invective was familiar, but the target was new. This time Hearst-man Westbrook Pegler was attacking neither a Roosevelt, nor a labor leader, nor Harry Truman. He was taking on his own boss, William Randolph Hearst...
Choice Venom. With a father's sure instinct, Arthur James Pegler. a Hearst reporter himself, forbade his son to go into journalism. But Westbrook heeded his father no more than he did anyone else. He quit high school to take a job with United...