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...Voice of TIME, both on the air and in the cinema, is that of Cornelius Westbrook Van Voorhis, 35, tall (6 ft. 1 in.), brown-haired New Yorker who has also broadcast as Hugh Conrad. In his six years with radio he has worked for some 50 programs using at least five names (some chosen by the sponsors). Bored by the U. S. Naval Academy, he spent his $150,000 patrimony on a leisurely trip around the world. Unsuccessful on the stage, he got a job at $18 a week introducing Jimmy Durante and Cab Galloway at the now defunct...
...Second Section, the paper's most prominent feature position. Soon General Johnson's "stuff" improved, became fiercely partisan for his old chief Franklin Roosevelt, rang with colorful invective. Last week a rare journalistic accolade was bestowed on Columnist Hugh Johnson when his running mate, freckle-faced Westbrook Fegler. who has been at columning some eleven years, leaned out of his crow's nest across the World-Telegram's ''folio page" to give the newcomer a friendly hail, pay him a well-deserved compliment...
Edison Collins Westbrook, Georgia University of Agriculture professor: "I am reserving my opinion...
...scholars had no reason to complain of lack of public attention. Scripps-Howard's glib Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote two pieces about what he referred to as "Highbrows' Old Home Week." A new extension of geometry which made it appear that the whole is not equal to the sum of the parts (see below) served as a pat allusion for an editorial writer commenting on the cordial meeting between Alf Landon and Franklin Roosevelt (see p. 13), for a sportswriter gloating over the winning spurt of the New York Giants. A letter arrived from the editor of Beauty...
Early last week dispatches from a vacation spot in Colorado began to rustle through the becalmed leaves of the nation's Press. These remote stirrings indicated that an answer would soon be forthcoming for Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who last week treated his Scripps-Howard readers to the following sarcasm...