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...Heywood Broun: "... even I'm Just Wild About Harry could not stir exceedingly dead Elizabethan bones...
...Heywood Broun (who protested loudly the wisdom of this year's Pulitzer award): " More than possible that Dew Drop Inn will win the Pulitzer Prize for next year...
What is his quality? What is this element of greatness? To meet Mr. Broun is to understand, partly at least, his gift as a writer. Large, shambling, often ill at ease, kindly, yet with that curious detachment which marks those who are much absorbed in their own thought, he invariably impresses one by his childlike eagerness. This is the fundamental characteristic of a great reporter, I judge. The world, as it appears to him each morning, is a new world. Events come to him as great God-given phenomena at which he gazes not with the eyes of a visionary...
...Broun was born in Brooklyn. He was a student at Harvard. He has served most of his life on newspapers. His wife is Miss Ruth Hale. His child is well known to the public through Broun's own writings...
...write a sketch of Heywood Broun without mentioning his clothes would be unique. His clothes are just that?unique. Altogether, he is thoroughly American, the best example I know of the sublimation most of the characteristics which are best in that most individual of products?the newspaper reporter...