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...place have come cleaner headline type, fewer screaming bannerlines and a more up-to-date, readable layout. Gigantic cartoons and other boiler plate that once poured out of Hearst headquarters are now passed up by editors whenever they will, and even such well-entrenched Hearst columnists as Westbrook Pegler and George Sokolsky may be dropped or trimmed as editors desire...
...serves up Fair-Dealing, "see here now!" editorials along with a leavening mixture of sex, sin and revelation. By now, the Post's formula for revelation has become pat: a continuous series of wordy but provocative sketches of favorite Post whipping boys, e.g., Senator McCarthy, Walter Winchell, Westbrook Pegler. When U.S.A. Confidential began making headlines and the bestseller lists, Wechsler spotted ideal subjects for his next serial scorcher: the book's authors, the New York Mirror's editor, Jack Lait, and its nightclub columnist, Lee Mortimer, who are already defendants in twelve libel suits for their offhand...
Wrote President Truman: "I never read or listen to Walter Winchell, Westbrook Pegler, George Sokolsky or John O'Donnell, or any of the liars for the simple reason that it just stirs you up for no good purpose." Added O'Donnell, with his usual choleric pride; "After all, when you have won against such professional, high-grade, adroit and skillful liars as the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, for example, you shouldn't be lured into controversy by clumsy amateur insulters...
From Hearst's New York Journal-American Westbrook Pegler's terrible-tempered column was conspicuously missing one day last week. Reason: as often happens, the column was deemed too hot to print...
...Canadian Catholic newspapers. Said the News Service: "Official sources in the Vatican stated categorically that no Holy See official has been authorized to treat with anyone concerning union problems . . . The same sources had no knowledge whatever of the possibility of the so-called 'official' mentioned in the Westbrook Pegler story, and they disavowed any Holy See association with the Pegler attack on U.S. unions and union leaders...