Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...month ago Columnist Heywood Broun summed up his political emotion in the sentence: "Anything to get that collie out of the White House...
...been studied in their native haunts. Next season newshawks will be dragged whining from their typewriters and flung upon the stage. One scheduled play about newspaper folk is Gentlemen of the Press by Ward Morehouse, who writes dramatic notes for the New York Evening Sun. In this a genuine columnist, Russel Crouse of the New York Evening Post, will try acting. Another is The Front Page, by Ben Hecht and Chas. McArthur, sponsored by Jed Harris, which received a tryout in Newark last week...
...York World ousted Columnist Heywood Broun because it seemed to the World that he was disloyal to the World (TIME, May 14). The New York Telegram (Scripps-Howard Newspaper) last week hired Columnist Broun because he is a liberal with a following. Said Mr. Broun: "I am glad to be on the Telegram . . . here at last I have a spot where I can lift my voice without being bothered by the fear that perhaps I am not precisely in tune with the rest of the choir. I never did like part singing...
...poker player who usually wins and a pinkish liberal who earnestly omits tact is Columnist Heywood Broun. One day last week, the following announcement appeared in the New York World at the top of the space usually devoted to his column...
...Broun had done every sort of writing for the World except giving advice to the lovelorn. He had been reporter, book reviewer, theatre critic (before he developed a phobia for the theatre), sports writer, columnist. His whims had upset the World routine; but his stuff had a following. Last August, he came to a stalemate with Publisher Ralph Pulitzer of the World because he insisted on writing very, very pinkish words on the Sacco-Vanzetti case (TIME, Aug. 22). It was not until late in December that Mr. Broun's column again appeared in the World. Meanwhile, he took...