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Columnist Westbrook Pegler likes California so much that he tries to reform it. Critical of San Francisco statuary, he lately set out to improve it with work of his own (see cut, col. 3). Last week he frothed at Los Angeles, home of EPIC, land of Ham & Eggs, as follows...
Between Columnists James Westbrook Pegler and Heywood Campbell Broun there had long existed a somewhat strained out-of-print friendship. In print, "Old Peg," ever scornful of anything that looks like uplift, called his friend "old Bleeding Heart Broun," "the fat Mahatma." Two months ago, Columnist Pegler jabbed a particularly tender spot. American Newspaper Guild President Broun was operating a scab shop, he wrote, because the Connecticut Nutmeg, of which Broun is one-tenth owner-editor, had hired a non-union reporter. Next week, from his regular page in the New Republic, President Broun heatedly denied he had anything...
This week, ex-Friend Pegler's book, The Dissenting Opinions of Mister Westbrook Pegler, was published.* Of its 85 reprints of his daily diatribes, only two were written without his scalpel. One is an ecstatic appreciation of Walt Disney. The other, a testimonial to telegraph operators, amazed even its author. "I am not very good at singing praises," he concludes, "having very little practice, and I hardly know what has prompted me to this extraordinary outburst of sweetness toward my fellow man. Just call it a change of pace...
...lacked a colossus. It might also have been spared a long and bitter argument about that project which has involved its creator, Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano, with the City Fathers, the Franciscan Order, the Archbishop of San Francisco, the Federal Art Project and, last and most lathered of all, Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Mr. Pegler discovered San Francisco's proposed colossus early this month and slapped it square on the button...
...loan of $300,000; Weslaco, Tex., $94,500; Wharton, Tex., $90,000; Wichita Falls, Tex., $787,000 plus a loan of $963,000; El Dorado, Ark., $298,000 plus a loan of $365,000; Fairport Harbor, Ohio, $66,000; Murfreesboro, Tenn., $110,455 plus a loan of $135,000; Westbrook, Minn., $30,272; Xewton Falls, Ohio...