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After disregarding one court order to appear for questioning, Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler turned up to talk things over with Quentin Reynolds' lawyer. Free-lance Writer Reynolds had brought a $500,000 libel suit (TIME, Dec. 12) against Pegler for calling him, among other things, a "fourflusher" and a "nudist...
...syndicated "Pitching Horseshoes" last week, Columnist Billy Rose told a touching tale about an actress of bygone days whom he called Harriet Reeves. According to Rose, she was a prima donna who made many enemies by her scene-stealing and slights before a weak heart forced her to quit the stage. Then, told that she had only a few months to live, Harriet Reeves contritely determined to give an elaborate party for the people she had wronged. But on the appointed night "last summer," nobody came. After two hours of humiliating waiting, Harriet Reeves had a heart attack and died...
...selection of Marshals representing other classes will include Judge Charles E. Wyzanski '27, of the U. S. District Court; Columnist Joseph W. Alsop, Jr. '32 of Washington, D. C.; William A. M. Burden '27, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce; Publisher Philip S. Weld '36, of Gloucester; Attorney Richard H. Field '26, former General Counsel of the O. P. A.; W. Nelson Bump '29, vice-president of Pan American Airlines; and Attorney Endicott "Chub" Peabody '42, 1941 All-American guard...
...speech at Freedom House, Cowley said that he did not think that Matthiessen's suicide was the result of political persecution. "He had too much strength to be killed off by a columnist," the chairman stated. He added, however, that he thought the world tensions referred to in the professor's death note had helped to bring about Matthiessen's depressed state of mind...
...Only Defense. Mrs. McCullough, cheered on by Society Columnist Igor Cassini ("Cholly Knickerbocker" of the New York Journal-American), Columnists George Sokolsky, Westbrook Pegler, Bill Cunningham and Radiorator Fulton Lewis Jr., and backed by some $28,000 (mostly in small bills) from thousands of sympathizers, had made the only defense she could: that her charge of pro-Communism against Adler and Draper was the truth...