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...going to engage in Red-baiting . . ." That still left one interesting question: Did Wallace write (in 1934) the fawning, fantastic Guru letters, full of schoolboy mysticism and "secret" pet names, to the late Nicholas Roerich, a fork-bearded Russian artist, explorer, and cultist (TIME, Dec. 29)? For months Columnist Westbrook Pegler had been trying to provoke a yes or no from Wallace...
What's a Guru? A reporter rose and put the question to Wallace. "I never discuss Westbrook Pegler in public," retorted Wallace...
...more reporters popped the question, and were brushed aside. Then a paunchy, scowling ex-sportwriter tried his hand. His own version of what happened next: "... A tall, not unhandsome chap arose, a man of spiritual mien and prematurely grey, arose to declare: 'My name is Westbrook Pegler, Mr. Wallace . . . You have reminded us journalists of the important duty of getting all the available facts. Therefore, I ask you to say whether you did or did not write certain letters...
...never engage in any discussion whatsoever with Westbrook Pegler,' Bubblehead* replied...
...Stooge? Pegler sat down. All the correspondents had agreed to ask only one question apiece. To three others who also put the Gurusome question Wallace snapped: "I never engage in a discussion with a stooge of Westbrook Pegler." Finally a watery-eyed oldster got up. "My name is Mencken, H. L.," he announced. "Will you call me a stooge of Pegler...