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Their digging resulted in the roughest, riskiest exposé ever carried by the 107-year-old Oregonian. It earned them the American Newspaper Guild's 1957 Heywood Broun Award.* And last week, as a grand jury handed down indictments in Portland, as the mighty Dave Beck fell off his high wagon, Turner and Lambert reaped the even greater satisfaction of knowing that their unlikely tale of local corruption had unfolded into a major national story...
Bronstein stopped lending money by 1950, but by then the bloom was off the peach. "Heywood Broun put me out of business when he organized the Newspaper Guild," he says. "When the boys began making enough money to tide them over from one payday to the next, there was no more need for my services...
...technician whose best known preoccupation is reaching for the moon, famed German-born Rocketeer Wernher von Broun, went in the opposite direction, harnessed himself into skindiving apparatus and plunged into a tank at Miami's Seaquarium for a submarine safari. Also an underwater hunter, Spaceman von Braun recently bagged a 50-lb. grouper in the shallows off Florida's west coast...
...began to tire of Sunday. Heywood Broun (not yet a Roman Catholic) called him the "tank-town Torquemada." Princeton's Dean Andrew West, "in the name of ... the purity and sanctity of our Christian faith," denied Billy permission to speak on the campus. He died in 1935, most forgotten of men. Booze was legal again, the tabernacle lumber was being used for CCC camps, and other trombones were heard in the land...
There was nothing wrong, said the Hearst lawyers, with Pegler's writing that "Reynolds went nuding along the public road [with] a wench." After all, "perfectly honorable people are nudists, and . . . nudism [is] not a crime." Pegler's charge that Reynolds proposed marriage to Heywood Broun's widow in the car on the way to Broun's grave was not libelous either, said the lawyers, since even the Mosaic Code imposes "upon a brother the duty of proposing to his dead brother's widow." As for Pegler's charge that Reynolds had "a yellow...