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...Before Westbrook Pegler could open his mouth, the White House gave out the news: Franklin Roosevelt had been to Hyde Park and was back on the job. Pegler had said that next time he heard of a blacked-out Presidential trip to Hyde Park, he would defy censorship and report it (TIME, March 5). He just didn't hear of it until he read it in a newspaper. But if Pegler got cheated out of some agreeable notoriety, he did get something which he and many U.S. editors wanted: a slight easing up of an absurd censorship. The White...
From then on, Anita Counihan was to live almost exclusively among celebrities. Almost any night she might be found surrounded by one or all of her Stork Club gang: talking over his experiences in Spain with Ernest Hemingway or their experiences anywhere with Westbrook Pegler, Peter Arno, Damon Runyon, Steve Hannegan, John O'Hara; dancing at El Morocco with Dan Topping and Shipwreck Kelly; dashing out to the country to help Deems Taylor compose a new operetta. Between times there were play or ballet or opera openings with the William Rhinelander Stewarts, the Orson Munns, Prince Serge Obolensky...
...spot in the World-Telegram's column of columns was last regularly occupied by Westbrook Pegler, now gone to Hearst.* But the boots that Tom Stokes is really setting out to fill are those of his great & good friend, the late Raymond Clapper...
David Josefovich Zaslavsky is the Westbrook Pegler of the Russian press. He has slashed at General Douglas MacArthur, Military Critic Hanson Baldwin, the late Wendell Willkie, William C. Bullitt. Last fortnight Zaslavsky slashed at Soviet bureaucrats. His theme: the scarcity of nipples in Russia...
...time drew near for Roosevelt-hating Columnist Westbrook Pegler to say farewell to Scripps-Howard and hello to Hearst (TIME, Aug. 28), he became curiously engrossed in matters which seemed far removed from his everyday peeves. His mind's eye filled with tall clipper ships crowding on sail on the China run, with silks and sandalwood and opium, gongs and the firebreath of dragons. In New York and Boston libraries he delved long in old tomes: Lawrence Kearny, Sailor Diplomat; The Clipper Ship Era; The Opium Trade; The Opium Clipper. Could Peg be softening up, seeking escape from...