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Nicknamed by newspapers "The Sage of Potato Hill," and the "Kansas Diogenes," Ed Howe was not, as such titles suggested, a small-town Jeremiah, muttering philippic nonsense. His autobiography, Plain People, Heywood Broun called "prose of a sort to make every other journalist bite his nails with envy." The Saturday Review of Literature referred to him as the "spiritual legatee of Benjamin Franklin" because of his curt adages and his printshop background. Intelligent Kansans whom Ed Howe last week stopped rebuking for the first time in 60 years approve of him. At a dinner on the 50th anniversary...
Friends of Dr. Lindsay Rogers, who has been struggling with the code for five months, well knew that the deputy NRAdministrator hoped that Guild delegates would not create further friction with publishers by making Heywood Broun, pinko Scripps-Howard columnist, their first president. But after a National Press Club luncheon at which General Johnson assured them that the Government would protect them from discharge for joining the Guild, the delegates promptly elected Broun. Other officers: Lloyd White (Cleveland Press), Andrew McClean Parker (Philadelphia Record), Edward D. Burks (Tulsa World), R. S. Gilfillan (Minneapolis Tribune), A. Judson Evans (Richmond Times-Dispatch...
...romantic Colyumist Heywood Broun of the New York World-Telegram likes to back lost causes, pat underdogs. Some two months ago he hatched a plan which looked like a sure loser-the forming of a New York newspapermen's guild. He well knew the standard arguments against it. Out of many similar attempts in the past, only those in Milwaukee and Scranton, Pa. had effectively survived. Publishers were hostile. Newsmen, especially in New York, were too proud, too individualistic, too footloose to sign lodge cards. But that was just the kind of set-up that Colyumist Broun likes...
Manhattan newspaper offices for the last three weeks have buzzed about a Hearst "raid" on feature writers of the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram. Over to Hearst went Fashion Writer Prunella Wood and Shopping Colyumist Alice Hughes. Last week it became known that Heywood Broun had received a Hearst offer, turned it down. Even if Colyumist Broun had lumbered away from the World-Telegram Publisher Roy Howard would have had good reason to feel pleased with the results of last week's deals in colyumists. He had conducted a quiet but more effective raid of his own: Westbrook Pegler, famed...
...usually confined to the subject of sport and even when, as last winter, he wrote sardonic essays on goings on in Washington, they appeared on sports pages. For the World-Telegram, Colyumist Pegler will write about anything he likes or. much more probably, dislikes. His work will appear, like Broun's, on the feature page...