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Miss West, her face hidden behind dark glasses to protect herself from the glare, stood on a table to watch the Dewey demonstration. Her convention reports read a little like an eyewitness account by a visitor from Mars who had read a guidebook before coming. Pink-faced, bushy-browed Westbrook Pegler, stoutly filling a grey suit, chatted amiably with his dandiacal little ex-boss, publisher Roy Howard, who wore his familiar matching shirt, bow tie and breast-pocket handkerchief. Cartoonist David Low, looking just like his self-caricatures, but larger, made quick reminders of the shape of a jowl...
...Westbrook Pegler, back from his spring vacation with his adrenals fully recharged, read up on the Wall Street strike. Peg had some advice for the cops on how to handle pickets trying the "lie-down" technique: "They deserved to be clubbed senseless or, if that were necessary, to be clubbed to death in the interests of public order and government. The police should always use all the force necessary to maintain order and . . . should use more than is necessary, rather than less...
Reading about the Cincinnati Enquirer-Westbrook Pegler feud [TIME, March 1], I noticed you termed the Enquirer "Democratic." After several years of reading the Enquirer, I've either gotten the wrong slant on things, or else TIME is wrong. About the only thing in the Enquirer that approaches being democratic is the comic section...
...Democratic Cincinnati Enquirer got fed up with the flap-jawed way some of its columnists were talking. In an editorial, it warned its readers that Westbrook Pegler and Walter Winchell often don't know what they're talking about...
Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich, an egg-bald Russian with a twin-pronged beard, spent a lifetime seeking peace and, somehow, disturbing everything he touched. Devoted followers thought he was a genius who could unify humanity through art. Loudmouthed Westbrook Pegler thought he was a quack who wanted to become "head" of Siberia...