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...have families. Unlike most people, columnists often parade their close relatives before their public, to make a point or fill a stick. Constant readers know about the mothers of Hugh Johnson and Hey wood Broun, about Dorothy Thompson's son and Eleanor Roosevelt's husband. Last week Westbrook Pegler had a good story to tell about his father...
...After the Lindsay incident Columnist Westbrook Pegler tartly reminded the press: "It will be worth remembering . . . that they are not coming to visit the American newspapers...
Next, Mr. Ickes got down to the cases of the "snipers and guttersnipers." Snipers were General Hugh Johnson and Westbrook Pegler. "While Johnson is against only those numerous public officials who are bungling affairs that he could so competently manage, Pegler is against everything and everybody according to his whim." Chief guttersniper in Mr. Ickes' category was "Mr. Munchausen," identified in advance copies of the speech as Paul Mallon, although CBS induced Mr. Ickes not to call names over the air. Several of Columnist Mallon's items about Mr. Ickes, Mr. Ickes bluntly charged, were lies...
Highest-paid columnist was the New York Herald Tribune's Walter Lippmann, whose salary was $62,476. Hearst's Arthur ("Bugs") Baer made $53,000. Walter Winchell $51,699. Scripps-Howard's Westbrook Pegler's $46,263 salary was $10,003 more than that of his friendly enemy, Heywood Broun.* Eleanor Roosevelt drew $16,587 (all pledged to charity); Hugh Johnson...
Subject of the controversy was "Fair Enough," which in addition to being the title of Westbrook Pegler's daily column, appears to be the title of both the Pudding show and the Columbia Varsity production. Southern thespians claimed to have released their title on December 20, whereas the first Hasty Pudding press hand out was dated February...