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...Pudgy, genial Hal O'Flaherty, 52, whom Columnist Westbrook Pegler once called "a Model T, or primitive, Americanist," recently took leave of absence from his job as Chicago Daily News managing editor to go back to an old love. A war correspondent in World War I and head of the News's European staff in 1924, O'Flaherty will leave for the Southwest Pacific to report World War II, replacing the News's George Weller, Pulitzer Prizewinner, who is ill. New News managing editor: Lloyd Downs Lewis, 52, a jack-of-many-newspaper-trades (book reviewer...
...getting tired of the attempts by Westbrook Pegler and others to try to "debunk" our national anthem (TIME, March...
...ought at least keep its author paying stiff-collar taxes. Like Totem Pole it consists of the sort of talk that might be had, by the hour, from any boozy, bawdy, abundant newspaperman. Such talk is dull in spots, complacently boorish in others, childish in some of its conclusions (Westbrook Pegler, though mentally "the human saddle sore" is as a prose stylist "one of the great writers of our day"). At its worst the book has at least the charm of its dialect: the dialect of the vigorous, honest, somewhat cornfed gentlemen of the press. At its best...
...Army rallied few celebrants in the U.S. How far the U.S. was from Britain in outward appreciation of Russia was suggested by what Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote three days after Red Army Day: "Communism is, for a fact, a menace to the United States. . . . But Hitler happens to be the military enemy of the moment and first things come first...
Actually Secretary Knox had not changed Winchell's status: he has been on inactive duty since he got back from South America in January. But Congressmen were appeased: Westbrook Pegler got a column out of it; so did Winchell. Winchell's grandiose view of his new role: "It apparently has been decided that the Navy is to fight the underseas threat and that I am to continue fighting the undercover menace...