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Tolson Belmont DeLooch McGuire As. Pegler Sees It:. Moh? Parsons Oleocleanor Melts Rosen Tenk. In Fans' Esteem. Troties W.C. Bullivan (By WESTBROOK PEGLER Tele. Room ALEANOR ROO6EVELT'S devotees wrIte the most Holloman E abusive tetters that I have ever received, but I Gandy stand my ground, conscientlously opposing a hallu- cinatlon that seems to me to have done ns great moral . and political harm. Her fantastlc energy now commands almost as much attentlon, even awe, as her audacity in presuming to high authority without ever having run for even the humblest office. But at last she has discredited herself around the edges, running Into re- ststance in quarters where hitnerto invariably she was revered. Her Tv commercial for a food product drew startling reproof. In the Legislature of the absolutely Democratle State of New Mezlco where she had been barnstorming in PEGLEE person, she was rejected in terms amounting to insuit. And. probably most Important Of all her reverses, she and retired Senator Herbert Sapio of Tammany Hall and Mayor Robert Wagner. Mrs. Roosevelt also had undertaken to rule out Jack Kennedy for 1960. but Kennedy's publlcity immedi- ately clalmed. probably witn fair Justification, that he was now the leading young Democrat in certain Mayor Wagner's adherence to Desapio is sig- niflcant too because his father, the late Tammany Senator, was a siave of Mirs. Rooseveit's iate husband. As to the oleomargarine commercial, done for pay by Mrs. Roosevelt, Ben Gross of the New York the Weehieg Dally News wrote: "It's s mistake. Speaking purely personally, I think that for. + public sigure of her T.tteobta MAP prestige to lend her name to thts kind of commerclal venture is harmful not only to herself but to broad- casting as s whole." Mr. Gross then iell for the old Iable that she always gave such honorarts to charity. which, of course, is a culpable mlstake of the press In general. The New York Times' TV coiumnist Jaci Gouid,. i:' camera and linking her concem for the world's needy Wth the sale of a food product at the retall counter was disquleting in the extreme." 66 MA 13 13.3 117 MA IJ .359