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...that his military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, will not get to wear his medal from Argentina's Juan Peron, after all, because a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee refused to authorize it. The fight over the medal had inspired Truman's "s.o.b." blast at Columnist Drew Pearson...
Hearstling Columnist Westbrook Pegler carefully put tongue in cheek for a Cosmopolitan magazine article on his fan mail, entitled Dear Sir-You Cur!: "I was surprised to learn that my correspondents were friendly in overwhelming majority . . ." he wrote. "The dissenters, being obviously in error, are more to be pitied than scorned. They dodge the issues; they are ignorant victims of propaganda, and their personal comments are intemperate and vulgar by contrast with the fine taste and faultless morality of my devotees...
...class struggle. Last week this tendency to capitalist complacency got a pair of them into trouble. In reporting the Polo Grounds row between New York Giants' Manager Leo Durocher and a fan named Fred Boysen (see SPORT), the Daily Worker sport page played it straight at first. Wrote Columnist Bill Mardo: "One wants to see the respective merits of this case, and nothing else, brought out in the open and aired properly . . ." And Columnist Lester Rodney chimed in: "I'm making no prejudgment here...
...offenders were quick to get the party's point. Columnist Rodney meekly wrote : "I was off, and am trying to correct myself ... In any case involving a white and a Negro, it is the Negro who is prejudged and presumed guilty . . . This is what I seem to have forgotten." Wrote Columnist Mardo : "This writer would like to take note of the serious criticism he has received for the errors of omission [which] resulted in a poor, politically incorrect column . . . There should have been no discussion of [Commissioner] Chandler and Durocher without linking it to the main question of white...
From the sidelines, Columnist Drew Pearson also threw some grit into Waltham's newly cleaned works. Waltham's new boss, John Hagerty, had left his $10,000-a-year job as Boston manager of the RFC to take the $30,000-a-year Waltham presidency. Since it was RFC which had lent Waltham $6,000,000 to pay debts and resume production, Pearson asked: "Did Waltham offer the lush salary to Hagerty because he deserved it, or as a reward for helping swing the RFC loan?" Retorted RFC: Hagerty did recommend the loan, but RFC headquarters in Washington...