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...Broun, Lament and Gibbons...
...dense, but read as I will I can make nothing but nonsense out of your People paragraph (TIME, April 13) on Heywood Broun, T. W. Lamont and Cardinal Gibbons. Why shouldn't the Pope call Gibbons Gibbons? Or is that the point, that he did call him Gibbons, thus proving his infallibility? But what's so funny about that? Or isn't it supposed to be funny? But if not, why tell it as an anecdote? And if it is funny-well, I'm sorry...
Colyumist Heywood Broun of the New-York World-Telegram, as part of his daily stint, related a story which "a priest told me of Cardinal Gibbons. . . . When he returned from Rome a newspaper friend asked him: 'Now that you have been to the Vatican do you still believe in the infallibility of the Pope?' and Cardinal Gibbons smiled and said : 'Well, he called me Jibbons.' " The identical story had been told by Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont at last fortnight's Academy of Political Science dinner for Walter Lippmann (TIME, March 30). At that dinner...
...complete the Tribune's discomfiture, Journalist Heywood Broun of the New York World-Telegram devoted a day's column to the obituary, saying: "The incident raises the whole question of what differentiation should be made between criticism of the quick and of the dead. It is familiar journalistic practice to take back a great deal about any opponent as soon as he has safely departed from life. I think this constitutes a faulty method...
Colyumist Broun recalled how the late Editor Frank Irving Cobb of the late New York World, after campaigning bitterly against the mayoralty (1910-13) of William Jay Gaynor, took back nothing when Gaynor died (Sept. 12, 1913). Cobb wrote: "What the World said of William J. Gaynor . . . after Tammany had refused to renominate him for Mayor, it desires to repeat now. . . . Had the Mayor been able to control himself as sturdily as he was able to resist control from the outside he would be a commanding figure. . . . " More violently, William Allen White wrote: "Frank Munsey, the great publisher, is dead...