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...Washington for the inauguration, Columnist Westbrook Pegler shook hands with a man he thought was an admirer, found he had accepted a summons from a process server: a $5,100,000 assault-libel-conspiracy suit filed by Fellow Columnist Drew Pearson...
...Albuquerque, Fort Worth, etc. Far from making his papers pale stereotypes of one another, he encouraged local editors to lead their communities, as the Cleveland Press's Louis Seltzer has so notably done. Howard, whose vernacular is as colorful as his rainbow-colored shirts, developed Columnists Heywood Broun, Westbrook Pegler, Ernie Pyle, Robert Ruark, lets Mrs. Roosevelt write as she pleases, even though her views often conflict with...
Ever since William R. Hearst Jr. took command of the family's papers, the chain's columnists have been getting some hard editing and trimming by the boss. Last week Westbrook Pegler, who has seen the blue penciling on the wall, drafted a new set of ground rules for himself and proved he was still master of the humorous, wry style that made him famous before he became a bore. Wrote Pegler...
...American's southbound Stratocruiser, just off from Rio en route to Montevideo, had reached 12,000 feet. In the morning sunlight, the clouds sparkled brilliantly. One of the 28 passengers, U.S.-born Mrs. Marie Westbrook Capellaro, wife of a Roman banker, pressed her camera against a window, eagerly taking pictures. Suddenly the cabin door popped open and the plane yawed. When Mrs. Capellaro's husband turned to look at his wife, she was gone-sucked from the pressurized cabin through the open hatch and, after a fall of approximately one minute and 25 seconds, dropped without a trace...
...hard time covering the story. There were not enough badges for half the newsmen who wanted them. One newsman, told by Republican Chairman Guy Gabrielson that all his press tickets were gone, got some right away from Chicago's Democratic Boss Jack Arvey. Terrible-tempered Columnist Westbrook Pegler was so outraged by the back-row seat he was assigned that he denounced the "leftwing standing committee that put me way out here in left field." Snapped back Gallery Boss Harold Beckley, who also runs the U.S. Senate's press gallery: "He could write the stuff...