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...answers, as usual, in ups & downs of personal sharpness and pseudo-scientific bombast, glib epigrams and gassy notions, often pungent and more often appallingly slipshod prose. At his best, Iconoclast Wylie pinpricks as sharply as H. L. Mencken ; at his worst, he is as full of unenlightening heat as Westbrook Pegler...
Last month Tom Stokes's conscience drove him to a remarkable decision: he insisted that his column be dropped by the Scripps-Howard chain, which started to syndicate him two years ago. Like Westbrook Pegler and the late Heywood Broun, Stokes had-or thought he had-an acute case of Scripps-Howard trouble...
Cinema Hard Guy George Raft, who had been getting the full treatment from Columnist Westbrook Pegler (who disapproved of Raft's associates and felt that Raft was just about as black as the movies painted him), suddenly had a little trouble with a 50-year-old attorney named Edward Raiden. Back before Christmas of last year, charged Raiden, he had been sent to Raft by 19-year-old Betty Doss to recover some finery which Raft had given her and then yanked back. While one of Raft's friends held him, the attorney complained, Raft gave...
...wife Romelle had babies a day apart (see MILESTONES). Then the Advertising Research Foundation reported that she is the columnist with most reader appeal to U.S. women. My Day, according to the survey, is read by 37% of women newspaper readers. (Then come George Sokolsky, Dorothy Thompson and Westbrook Pegler...
...John Lewis, is general counsel for the A.F.L. and the archetype of the U.S. labor lawyer. As confidant, adviser, defender of Jimmy Petrillo, Dan Tobin and many another A.F.L. chieftain, Joe Padway has written both labor history and labor law, could boast of many a thwacking from Columnist Westbrook Pegler. He was born in Leeds, England, came to the U.S. as a youth, was admitted to the Wisconsin...