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...This team has great strength on the attack. Indeed, I defy anybody to pick a more offensive aggregation." So wrote massive, loudly liberal Columnist Heywood Broun, old New York World sports reporter, in his syndicated column, picking his own 1937 All-America Stuffed-Shirt Eleven. Eliminating a left wing entirely, Leftist Broun put both Sinclair Lewis and Boake Carter at right guard, Dale ("How to Win Friends") Carnegie at quarterback, New York's bumbling Senator Royal Samuel Copeland at fullback. "Because he has a tendency to block the attack of his own side," Mr. Broun, against the advice...
...SUPPORT THE NO. 1 U. S. NEWSPAPER'S REPUTATION. TIMES'S NEWSHAWKS DENNY AND DURANTY ARE ON EQUAL FOOTING. DENNY MOSCOW CORRESPONDENT SINCE 1934; DURANTY 1921 TO 1934, LATER PINCH-HITTING WHEN DENNY ABSENT, EYE-WITNESSING, VACATIONING, FRONT PAGING. TIME'S OPINION DENNY "CAREFUL, FRANK." COLUMNIST BROUN'S OPINION DURANTY "EDITORIALIGHT DISGUISED AS NEWS-HAWK." DURANTY OPINION DURANTY "FACTSEEKER BEHIND FACTS." DURANTY OPINION TIME "ACE PUNGENT NEWS-PEPPER, NOW ACCUSED RE-MISSWARD SALT OF TRUTH...
There were no social functions, no civic ceremonies. All sessions were to be closed but President Heywood Broun of the American Newspaper Guild got them opened after the first day. Like A. F. of L., C. I. O. declared for a Japanese boycott, condemned the National Labor Relations Board. It unanimously resolved that contracts were sacred. It announced that it had spent $1,745,968 in the past 16 months, more than $900,000 on the steel strike alone. But just as C. I. 0. was A. F. of L.'s principal business, so A. F. of L. turned...
Answer to the keeper problem was a young ornithologist named Maurice Broun, who still works during the off season at "Long Trail," Vermont. He and his wife popped down to Hawk Mountain, immediately posted "No Hunting" signs all around. His deputy sheriff kept off indignant gunners, and Ornithologist Broun set about making Hawk Mountain an attractive observation point. His routine: in season, every day from 7:30 a. m. until 4:30 p. m. to stay on the mountain tallying birds, while his wife stays at the foot of the mountain directing visitors, mostly neighbors. Majority of birds that...
...rule newspaper columnists ride their own political hobby horses, politely ignore the hobby-horsemanship of their colleagues. For that reason the writing craft chortled last week as Heywood Broun, in his first time out on The New Republic (TIME, Sept. 20), charged at some contemporaries not Left enough...