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Like a bagpipe, Westbrook Pegler is raucous, penetrating, effective in arousing belligerent emotions. But also like a bagpipe, he is monotonously limited in range and variety. Last week it was announced that Columnist Pegler will shortly begin piping for a new audience. When his contract with Scripps-Howard and its United Feature Syndicate ends in November, the Pegler column will shift to Hearst and Hearst's King Features Syndicate...
...such fabulous voice as John McCormack's, either for the lyric subtleties of Mozart or the ripe Celtic emotionalism of Kathleen Mavourneen. But Downey has an exceptionally high, sweet voice, which he uses with a redolent Paddyism irresistible to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Knights of Columbus, Westbrook Pegler and most Irishmen, genuine or occasional. His voice is so high that he says of his choirboy period "in the olden days they would surely have brought...
...paraphrase Professor Hanson's quotation by Westbrook Pegler on Eleanor's solution to the plight of the white-collar worker, "What the white collar worker needs is a good laundry." Along this same line it is interesting to watch our room-mate struggle through his washing every Monday afternoon. He never can seem to get his paper collars to come out as well as his Kleenex does...
...Since Westbrook Pegler is almost always attacking somebody, his attacks are sometimes embarrassingly ill-timed. Last week Pegler chose to belabor Navy Secretary Frank Knox; he was sore because Publisher Knox had "suppressed" Pegler's syndicated column in the Chicago Daily News (TIME, April 24). The reasons, according to Pegler: 1) the Daily News would print nothing unfavorable to Marshall Field because his Chicago Sun is a tenant of the News building; it would print nothing favorable to the Sun's powerful morning adversary, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick and his Chicago Tribune...
...Westbrook Pegler's sponsors as a national columnist was Secretary Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News (until three years ago it shared Pegler's basic syndicate contract with Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram). Recently the Daily News has omitted many Pegler columns. Last week Editor Paul Scott Mowrer explained (but not to his readers) why the Daily News had stopped printing them altogether: "We find that our own columnists are much more popular...