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...Abraham Chasanow, suspended by the Navy Department (TIME, May 10, 1954). Reporter Lewis wrote a five-part series on Chasanow's troubles, stirred up so much interest that the Navy reviewed the case, cleared Chasanow. The series won Tony Lewis the $500 annual American Newspaper Guild Heywood Broun Award for enterprising reporting. One of the honorable-mention winners for the same prize: Veteran (20 years) Reporter James B. ("Scotty") Reston, now chief of the Times's Washington bureau...
While classmate Walter Lippmann joined the College's Socialist Club, Reed did not. Nor did he learn radicalism in class. Another classmate, the late journalist Heywood Broun was able to quip later that he himself became a Communist because he went to see the Boston Red Sox play instead of listening to his economic's professor's lecture refuting Marx. But John Reed was not interested enough in his studies to learn Marxism in the classroom...
...Woodward, F. P. Dunne (Mr. Dooley), Horace Liveright, Eugene Debs, Douglas Fairbanks, Eugene O'Neill, Sherwood Anderson, Klaus Mann." And, lamented Sinclair, the roster of hard drinkers among the illustrious he knew through letters or friends was even longer. Among those departed: "Stephen Crane, James Whitcomb Riley, Heywood Broun, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin A. Robinson, Isadora Duncan, Thomas Wolfe, O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Scott Fitzgerald, Hart Crane, John Barrymore, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Dylan Thomas." Concluded Sinclair: "After wasting a year trying to please publishers, I am making this appeal to the conscience of my country. [Who] will make...
...Hans Habe, 5) Owen D. Johnson and 6) Leon Barzin; Nedenia Hutton married Stanley M. Rumbough Jr. The Davies daughters have wed six times: Eleanor married 1) Thomas P. Cheeseborough Jr. and 2) ex-Senator Millard Tydings; Rahel married 1) Aldace Walker 2) Burdette M. Fitch and 3) Fontaine Broun; Emlen married Robert Grosjean...
...courtroom Broun's biographer, Dale Kramer, offered his hand to Pegler, was rebuffed when Pegler thundered:"I don't want to shake hands with you. You're a bastard." "You're the same, " answered Kramer. Pegler hastily summoned a court attendant, pointed at Kramer and said: "This man was threatening me." Then the two were haled into the judge's chamber and ordered not to speak to one another again in the courthouse...