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Lawyer Ernst marshalled an attack upon the character of the Society. He summoned famed writers and artists to testify that the Society "could not tell the difference between filth and literature." Writer Carl Van Doren called the Society "a conspicuous nuisance in the community." Heywood Broun, co-biographer with Margaret Leech (Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer) of Anthony Comstock, said that the plaintiff's reputation was "bad." Artist Rockwell Kent testified that by emphasizing the "filth" in books which it disapproves (notably Jurgen, Casanova's Homecoming and The Well of Loneliness) the Society has boosted sales of such books beyond...
...young executives as well as aging Tories. Proof in itself of the paper's enterprise was its engagement of celebrated Liberal Lippmann, who will be permitted to write as he pleases, generally when he pleases, under his own signature, much as his volubly independent Harvard classmate Heywood Broun writes for the New York World-Telegram...
...distinguished litterateurs, editors and colyumists present looked apprehensively at dour, bulky Theodore Dreiser.* Mr. Dreiser reddened but sat still, said nothing. Colyumists Heywood Broun and Arthur Brisbane who might have been the two "sage critics" in question, joined in the embarrassing silence. Then Host Long called on jovial Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb to save the situation. Mr. Cobb told Visitor Pilnyak that those present were very fond of him and esteemed him very highly, since, "you see, we don't know enough about you yet to be jealous...
...deplorable condition!" grumbled Manhattan Colyumist Heywood Broun...
...Harvard student in 1906?1910, Colyumist Broun flunked French, was not graduated...