Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Editor Seymour, whose two papers overflow with columnists (e.g., Drew Pearson, Winchell, Walter Lippmann, Mrs. Roosevelt et al.), got down to cases on Pearson-"vindictive, vicious, a soapboxer. But I'd say that he's a good policeman and digger." Of Westbrook Pegler: "[He] is not in the same class [as Pearson]. Pegler is not performing a service now, though I suppose in the early days of his union muckraking...
Overwhelmed by these workings of the law, unable to touch her capital, Mrs. McCullough wondered how she was going to defend herself. Columnist Igor Cassini rallied to her aid. He appealed to his readers for contributions to the Mrs. John T. McCullough Defense Fund. Westbrook Pegler took up the crusade. So did George Sokolsky, columnist in the New York Sun, Bill Cunningham of the Boston Herald, and Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. Money came in, mostly in small denominations, from militant sympathizers; $18,000 was collected to help Mrs. McCullough fight her libel case through the federal courts...
...have never yet retracted a word of . . . fair comment," boasted Columnist Westbrook Pegler one day last week. Next day, in the New York Journal-American and 249 other papers carrying his column, he retracted a thousand words of unfair comment. As a legal settlement of several multimillion-dollar libel suits, Pegler published a 98-word apology to Delaware Businessman Abram N. Spanel for implying that he was "a Communist or fellow traveler...
...Manhattan for the World Series, ex-Sportwriter Westbrook Pegler had lunch with some oldtime sport stars and felt a strange, sentimental feeling taking possession of him. Last week, Pegler told about it in an off-form column without a single word of abuse for anybody: "I felt a little bashful, a little estranged . . . wondering whose feelings I might hurt ... by failing to recognize him on the instant . . . and a little sad, too . . . Unquestionably, the champions are special. There is a style and a look to them. They wear greatness as a habit...
...surprising to find him . . . using [Miss Mitchell's] death as a vehicle for rebuking the Roosevelts. We knew [her] well enough to know she made up her own mind . . . Certainly she would not [have been] swayed by the influence of an unwise, emotional Westbrook Pegler, an insensate Roosevelt-hater, whose column [may] have swayed and-deprived inferior minds...