"Amateur Insulters"

New York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell, who likes to remind readers that he was called a liar by Franklin D. Roosevelt, last week announced that he had made President Truman's list too. O'Donnell found out about his nomination from South Carolina's Governor

James F. Byrnes, who put the blast on Harry Truman in an article in Collier's last week. Byrnes had wanted to include a letter from the President attacking columnists, reported O'Donnell, but Collier's was afraid the columnists might sue for libel. So O'Donnell obligingly printed the letter himself.

Wrote President Truman: "I never read or listen to Walter Winchell, Westbrook Pegler, George Sokolsky or John O'Donnell, or any of the liars for the simple reason that it just stirs you up for no good purpose." Added O'Donnell, with his usual choleric pride; "After all, when you have won against such professional, high-grade, adroit and skillful liars as the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, for example, you shouldn't be lured into controversy by clumsy amateur insulters . . ."

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