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...Roosevelt told of a family party at the White House to celebrate her birthday, wrote about "a gentleman coming in to do some work" who later "played dance music for us." Since Mrs. Roosevelt's birthday party took place the night before the fireside chat. Columnist Westbrook Pegler acidly inquired...
...Westbrook Pegler: "The case of Mr. Pegler, 'that peril to placidity.' is simplest of all. Peg was bitten by an income tax while still a boy a few years...
Come, come, TIME, don't hold out on us. Did or did not Publisher Boettiger read Westbrook Pegler's scoring of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Boettiger in his column Monday, Aug. 9 [TIME, Aug. 23! ? I'll bet you that orchid you wear that John Boettiger saw it and had "the courage not to care" whether Pegler's column appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. MURIEL SHANNON...
...Westbrook Pegler's ''Fair Enough" column appeared last week in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer with the following blast: "Genius has followed the election returns in the case of Mrs. John Boettiger, the President's daughter, for she also went journalistic after Mr. Roosevelt's first election and, within the last year, above all the thousands of professional newspaper women in the United States who need jobs by which to live, has been singled out as peculiarly qualified for sub-editorship on one of Mr. Hearst's newspapers." Mrs. Boettiger is women's editor...
Sportswriter Rice's column established a golfer who was not only conceivably the best in the world but also so shy he refused to play in tournaments or have his picture taken as a public figure. John Montague promptly became major news. Last September, Westbrook Pegler devoted a column to him. Last January, when a freelance photographer finally got two snapshots of Montague, TIME published them with an account of his progress (TIME...