Monthly Archives: February 2012
Caustic newsman Pegler vanished, couldn’t stop stepping on big toes
Who’s who In 1941 Time magazine polled its readers for candidates for its Man of the Year award. Readers responded: 1. President Franklin Roosevelt, 2. Josef Stalin, 3. columnist Westbrook Pegler. Westbrook who? Although Pegler had dominated the newspaper columnist … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism
Modern armies study wars of Sun Tsu, wisdom from mists of time
Lately I have been immersed in a book called Sun Tsu on the “Art of War,” an ancient Chinese military manual which has become a classic in the 21stcentury. It is more than two millennia old and has been the … Continue reading
Filed under War
Jerry Proctor is the handle. I've logged 45 years in the newspaper racket. I've done interesting stuff from soldiering in Asia to fighting with the Society for Creative Anachronisms in Alabama. Statistics: married, four kids, two grand kids, retired. Like almost everything from Art to Zoology. "Thunderations" is a 19th century way of uttering an imprecation respectably.
