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...Smith was born in Portland, Maine, attended the Westbrook Seminary and Tufts College, where he received his A.M., and then became an instructor in Greek at West brook...
Wrote United Feature's tart, smart Columnist Westbrook Pegler few weeks ago: "There is something very imprudent not to say brutal about the record of the Roosevelt boys who have figured in traffic cases. Here is a country with an annual death list of 39,000 in automobile accidents trying earnestly to bring the figures down, and here are the sons of the No. 1 Citizen earning a joint reputation as the reckless irresponsibles of the open road who don't give a damn what they do because their daddy will fix it up. Everybody has to grow...
Sniffing about Europe in search of fun for himself and filler for his column, Scripps-Howard's sharp-nosed, sharp-tongued Columnist Westbrook Pegler last week discovered the extraordinary French magazine named Crapouillot, devoted a cabled column to telling U. S. readers about one issue of it. Unique is Crapouillot in devoting each issue to a single subject. Because it reminded him of Humphrey Cobb's best-selling novel Paths of Glory (TIME, June 3), Columnist Pegler had been attracted by the August 1934 issue, which told the appalling stories of a few of the luckless French soldiers...
...General Foods Corp., likes to speak his mind on business and politics. Sometimes Mr. Hutton's phraseology lets him in for public trouble. Last summer, in sounding off against soak-the-rich taxes, he declared that today he considered himself "70% slave and 30% free." Thereupon Columnist Westbrook Pegler mused: "This undoubtedly is true on the basis of his tax returns, but there is no denying that such slavery has its little compensations. Mr. Hutton's slave quarters in Palm Beach might be called a model cabin. His 16,000-acre patch in South Carolina is sufficient...
...first million-dollar fight since Dempsey v. Tunney in 1927, the sixth in ring history.* Hotels were packed to the doors, mostly by Middle Westerners celebrating a prosperous summer. Top-price on Broadway for ringside seats was $250 for two. Day after the fight, Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote a lead: "You are now listening to the most reassuring sound that has been heard in the land since a whisper from Samuel Insull was a roar from the douds. . . . I refer to the shrill, waning "No, no, no," while Referee Arthur Donovan ended the fight by counting...