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...sportswriter whose head is not turned by the luminaries of sport and whose typewriter does not print in purple ink, Jim Murray, 42, onetime Los Angeles Examiner, TIME and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED staffer, is a prime example of the new look in sportswriting. Since the days when Paul Gallico, Westbrook Pegler, Ring Lardner and Grantland Rice turned sportswriting into an art (and drew the best pay in newspapering for it), their imitators have filled the nation's sports pages with some of the worst-and occasionally some of the best-overwriting in journalism. This encouraged the notion, said Stanley Walker...
Tentatively admitting the John Birches to his petrified forest, Columnist Westbrook Pegler, 67, applauded their "Impeach Earl Warren" slogan ("I think this is an impractical idea but a worthy emotion"), but noted that he had personally "abstained from joining the society because it might not be far enough to the right." Equally abstemious, for different reasons, was another vintage journalist, California Rancher Thomas M. Storke, 84, who for 61 years has been editor-publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press. To counter Big Bircher Robert Welch's $2,300 college essay contest on reasons why Warren should be impeached...
...lavatories become yellow, rub with a solution of salt and turpentine to restore the whiteness" (Bert Bacharach), and, in a quick switch to weightier matters, that the Dominican Republic under Trujillo "was the best country on earth from the standpoint of the practical well-being of the people" (Westbrook Pegler). The Telly turned its attention (for 21 column inches) to a man in Greenwich Village who had just acquired a 1936 Dodge, reported that "that was indeed Joe Wade you saw bicycling along the Montauk Highway toward Southampton the other day" (Joseph X. Dever), and assured its readers that...
Died. Arthur James Pegler, 98, a newspaperman known affectionately as "Chicken" to his son, Columnist Westbrook Pegler, famed as a rough-and-tumble reporter on Hearst's rough-and-tumble Chicago American from 1900 to 1915; in a Tucson, Ariz, nursing home...
Camelot-on-Hudson. To Fowler, the Manhattan of his day was Camelot, and his fellow newsmen-Grantland Rice, Westbrook Pegler, Heywood Broun, Arthur Brisbane-were knights of the round table, which was usually a bar. Fowler's personal idol and friend was Alfred Damon Runyon. Despite his Broadway camaraderie, Runyon was a brooding, lonely man, and there were distinct traces of rube in his makeup. He believed that to count as a New York know-it-all, he had to unearth a champion heavyweight. Over the years he maintained a series of fighters who ate like lions and fought...