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Also on the Forum's list were newspapermen Westbrook Pagler, Fulton Lewis Jr., and Raymond Heale; former Senator Philip LaFollette and Representative Mike Monroney, co-authors of the Congressional reorganization bill; and several members of the University faculty, but no one was willing to appear before a Forum audience...
...crown was jolted further askew by Hearstling Westbrook Pegler, who dug up more ancient scandal. It was common knowledge that Rocky was a reform-school graduate, but his defenders argued that Rocky had gone right since then, and why pick on the kid? Pegler said he was later accused of: armed robbery in 1939, an assault on a 15-year-old girl in 1941. (Both charges were later dismissed...
...humid humor, Westbrook Pegler, who writes for Hearst, teed off on Ed ("Little Old New York") Sullivan, who writes for the tabloid New York Daily News. One of Ed's columns had caught Peg's bloodshot eye. It "consisted of an open letter to his secretary," wrote Pegler. "This was an unusual device. Usually his secretary writes to him and in this way is able to congratulate him on remarkable feats of exclusive journalism and prophecy and thank him for kindnesses to others which he might not have the indelicacy to mention, although modesty is not his worst...
Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who writes for Hearst, got off an angry piece which lashed at "some of the guttersnipes who cover the saloon beat and never bring in any news but write free advertising about some of the dirtiest criminals out of prison." Hearst's Manhattan movie critic Lee Mortimer (who recently took a couple of punches from Frank Sinatra) assured his readers that he knew Bugsy. Bugsy's death warrant, he wrote with an air of absolute authority, was signed last winter in Havana by Procurer Charles ("Lucky") Luciano...
...Westbrook Pegler, once famed for his post-New Year's columns ("I must not mix champagne, whiskey and gin," repeated 50 times), returned to the scene of his festivities, startled his readers with 68 lines of Lardneresque poesy about a bad night in a fancy bar. Sample...