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Rumpled Columnist Heywood Broun, 50, who is always at odds with his editors, reported in his syndicated daily comment It Seems To Me that he had had a conversation with Nudancer Sally Rand. She confronted him with: "I always say it is an evil thing for anybody to speak ill of his employer. Don't you agree with me, Mr. Broun?" Said he: "This took me somewhat by surprise, for it is a notion to which I have given little thought one way or another. And since my mind was not made up, I gave an evasive answer...
...Francisco for the convention of the American Newspaper Guild, of which he is president, Columnist Heywood Broun last week took a sideswipe at the employer who is soon to unemploy him. Said...
Last fortnight Columnist Broun advertised for a job (TIME, July 31), thereby publicly setting himself up as the No. 1 example of an oldtime newspaperman whose career has followed the conventional graph (reporter to critic to columnist) and who now needs work. There are thousands like him, for the number of U. S. daily newspapers had decreased by 211 in a decade. Time was when a good man could always get a job and the itinerant newspaperman was one of the most colorful figures in the land. He was hard-drinking, amorous, industrious when sober, able whether sober or drunk...
Cornered in his Stamford home, slovenly Heywood Campbell Broun, whose contract with the World-Telegram expires in December, joked: "Of course I can always go back to raising potatoes...
...Columnist Heywood ("It Seems to Me") Broun, variously described as a great idealist and a one-man slum, said he would run for Congress on the Democratic ticket in Fairfield County, Conn...