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...Colyumist Elsie McCormick of the New York World wrote Novelist William McFee, British author of sea tales: "Living in a small town like Westport [onetime Connecticut art colony, now suburbanized] one sees so many people aping the landed gentry in England that there is danger of neglecting one's work in order to laugh. They are perfectly plain middle class people and as such are charming neighbors. But they have the notion that as someone else has three cars they must have three, and if other folk ride horses and pretend to understand polo they must do the same...
Died. Heywood Cox Broun, 80, one-time printer (Broun, Green & Adams), onetime associate of Thomas McMullin & Co. (bottlers of Guiness stout and White Label bass ale), for the past ten years a Manhattan stockbroker (Reynolds, Fish & Co.), British-born father of Heywood Campbell Broun, colyumist for the New York Telegram and Socialist candidate for Congress; after a paralytic stroke, at St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan. After some reflection Colyumist Broun wrote a colyum about his father. Excerpts...
Many a reader of the Scripps-Howard liberal New York Telegram wondered what its editors thought of, what they would do about Colyumist Heywood Broun's Socialist candidacy for Congress (TIME, Aug. 11). Last week they learned from Editor Roy Wilson Howard: "We don't think much of it and we are going to do less...
...Next day Colyumist Broun replied to his boss: "I am tired of hearing all this talk about how the honest average citizen should get into politics and not leave it to the machine professionals. . . . [As for Socialism] at times the Scripps-Howard independence becomes little more than erratic whimsy. . . . [Mr. Howard] says I should stay on the sidelines with him and the rest of the Scripps- Howard executives joining in the long-drawn independent-liberal cheer of 'Hold 'em, forces of reform and decency...
Calvin Coolidge's articles are distributed by McClure Newspaper Syndicate to 71 dailies including big ones (like the New York Herald Tribune) and comparatively obscure ones (like Hearst's Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph). Colyumist Arthur Brisbane, writing his daily syndicated piece, for the Hearst press and King Features Syndicate, had occasion last week to refer to the Coolidge articles. But how to avoid advertising to Hearst readers that they need only pick up a copy of the New York Herald Tribune, Boston Post, Atlanta Journal, Washington Post, and find the Coolidge words? Loyal Hearstman, Colyumist Brisbane found a way. Wrote...