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Into this office had come such notables as Actor Raymond Massey, Financier and ex-Diplomat Joseph P. Kennedy and his Senator son John, and choleric Columnist Westbrook Pegler. When Sir Anthony Eden visited the clinic for surgery last year, it was Dr. Jordan who did the vital diagnostic work on which the surgeons' lifesaving decision was based...
...York Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, 66, in a Rangoon hospital after being felled by a mild stroke that will probably end his current globe-girdling tour; dyspeptic Columnist Westbrook Pegler, 63, in Boston for an ulcer checkup...
Wearing a hurt look and sounding indignant, pugnacious Joe Curran, 55, president of the National Maritime Union, sued acid-tongued Columnist Westbrook Pegler for $550,000, claiming that a union leader's reputation is damaged when he is characterized as a "racketeer," "Communist...
...stated and its youthful mistakes so widely publicized that it inevitably won the reputation of being the Wild One of philanthropy. In launching his investigation of tax-exempt foundations, Tennessee's tub-thumping B. Carroll Reece solemnly warned of Ford's "subversive and un-American propaganda activities." Westbrook Pegler called it a "front for dangerous Communists," and Pravda accused it of "the sending of spies, murderers, saboteurs and wreckers to Eastern Europe...
...hearings and played local angles to the hilt. Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 190,789), on the other hand, ran only routine service stories on the Senate investigation. still had not given the story top Page One play. The P-I diligently killed its syndicated Drew Pearson and Westbrook Pegler columns whenever they criticized Beck...