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...Post-Intelligencer. Off in a corner they found their man, a Hearstling whose byline outdraws Pegler, Pearson and Eleanor Roosevelt in the far Northwest, and next to Blondie is the PI's most avidly read feature. One of the callers made a little speech, and Sports Editor Royal Brougham learned that he, of all people, was Seattle's "first citizen...
...corned-up flights of prose, which his readers like, but a long list of good works had won small, brassy-voiced Royal Brougham the bronze plaque which usually goes to the city's biggest industrialists, philanthropists, and men-about-culture. Brougham had fought long, loudly and effectively for bigger & better playgrounds as "living memorials" to the dead of World War II, "instead of statues of some guy sitting on an iron horse." His wartime promotions had raised $250,000 for servicemen's recreation...
...sometimes, on out-of-town trips, writes their stuff for them when they get plastered. Six days a week he eyes the sports field once over lightly, knocks out a chatty, chummy column called the Morning After. At the small Dunlap Baptist Church, in a rundown part of town, Brougham teaches a Sunday school class of 35 teenagers. They come partly for the Bible lessons, partly to meet the guest stars their teacher hauls in from the sports world...
...Brougham started on the P-I as a $6-a-week "copy boy in knee pants, worked up to sports editor by 1919; six years later a Hearst troubleshooter arrived in town, fired the managing editor, gave Brougham...
Charles Burrows, a carpenter in Brougham, Ont., got his second summons for military service, with a sharp reminder that, if he ignored this one, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police would drop around. Burrows, a Boer War veteran, is 66. Charlie Morton, a glassworker in Vancouver, B.C., also got a summons. Said Morton, who is 72: "I've got flat feet, a bad right arm, and a stiff back, but if they need me, I'm willing...