James Westbrook Pegler was a journalist who was famous for his columns. Pegler criticized the Supreme Court, the Newspaper Guild, the wealthy, the U.S. Tax system, and well-known figures. In 1941 he won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing racketeering in Hollywood Labor Unions. In 1944 he won the Gold Medal from the Nassau Bar Association.
He married Julia Harpman on August 28, 1922. After she died in 1955 he married Maud Towart in 1955.
Richard W. Smith, a resident of River Edge, wrote to the editor of The Record about Frank Sherry's article "Crowded, Cold, Dark, And Rotted, Misery Mile Is No Reality Bargain." Smith claims that while he sympathizes with the conditions in Misery Mile, some people do not change poor ways of living even in new housing.
Rank Sherry was a journalist and reporter for The Record in the 1960s. He received an award for his work in 1964 when he was honored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
He lived in Rochelle Park. He had two children, Stephen and Diana.
The newspaper article "Tapestry of slaves and freemen" describes Arnold Brown's investigation of his ancestry and the discoveries he made about his ancestors and the African-American history of Bergen county.
