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Writing in the magazine '48, able Journalist Kenneth Stewart agrees that there have been "many stupid, many dull, many reactionary and many ridiculously belated awards." Among the newsmen who get prizes from Stewart and Binder (but never got Pulitzers): Heywood Broun, Raymond Clapper, Webb Miller, H. L. Mencken, A. T. Steele, Dorothy Thompson...
Last week the story won Andrews the 1947 Heywood Broun Award ($500) of the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild. To working newsmen, the Broun Award is the next best thing to the Pulitzer Prize...
When the late-Heywood Broun whipped up the American Newspaper Guild in 1933, he put in a generous helping of yeast. As the Guild, a C.I.O. affiliate since 1937, grew big and 25,000-strong, its members turned out to be such passionate unionists that many a local meeting developed into a battle royal that lasted half the night. Few hairs remained unsplit, whether the issue was politics or personalities. Last week it was both...
Last month Tom Stokes's conscience drove him to a remarkable decision: he insisted that his column be dropped by the Scripps-Howard chain, which started to syndicate him two years ago. Like Westbrook Pegler and the late Heywood Broun, Stokes had-or thought he had-an acute case of Scripps-Howard trouble...
...Algonquin became a Manhattan institution, and gave birth to other institutions. Most famed offspring: the Round Table, "a crowd of unusually agreeable folk": Alexander Woollcott, George S. Kaufman, "F.P.A.", Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Heywood Broun. In the twenties, they lunched together in the Oak Room. But when they died or drifted away, there were always younger wits to dine in the Oak Room and younger actors to sleep where John Barrymore had slept. Despite occasional rough going, the Algonquin usually earned a profit (last year...