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Among the more outstanding marks-men who have loosed the flight of slings and arrows at the ex-marine have been Heywood Broun, Louis Bromfield, Sinclair Lewis and H. L. Mencken. "One has only to contrast the interviews given by these two men, Dempsey and Tunney; one simple and profound, the other a mixture of bombast and cant," says one decrier of the literary note in Mr. Tunney's public statements. "A pugilist reading Hegel is about as appropriate as the dean of a woman's college singing. 'I'm Gonna Dance Wit' the Guy What Brung Me' says another...
...Broun's Progress...
...Masses. Heywood Broun, colyumist-at-large, last week wrote an article on the Sacco-Vanzetti case for New Masses, radical monthly published in Manhattan. New Masses, counting on the large Broun following reading the New York World, from which Mr. Broun recently retired because that newspaper refused to print two of his articles on the same case, submitted to the World an advertisement. The World wrote to New Masses: "We decline to publish [the advertisement] because the advertisement is misleading in its implication that the New Masses is publishing an article written by Mr. Broun and rejected by the World...
Nation. Colyumist Broun has contracted to write for the liberal Nation a weekly article entitled "It Seems to Heywood Broun," in which the colyumist will have untrammeled rights of expression...
...These attacks attracted attention. The staid New York Times editorialized: "If we are to measure out condemnation for cowardly bomb-throwers, we should not overlook men like Mr. Heywood Broun who asks in the World whether 'The institution of learning in Cambridge which we once called Harvard will be known as Hangman's House?' " *The World has not been sympathetic with the Sacco-Vanzetti prosecution...