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...ferocity, assuming a stance that reminded Woollcott of "a morning-glory vine climbing a pole." He was one of the deadliest pot rakers of the most famous seated gathering since King Arthur's, the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club; and when he failed to prosper, he beleaguered Heywood Broun, Harpo Marx, Herbert Bayard Swope and the rest with puns: "I fold my tens and silently steal away," or, apropos of nothing important, "One man's Mede is another man's Persian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: One Man's Mede | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

During the Sacco-Venzetti trial, Heywood Broun was writing a column for the New York World. Head of a committee to free the convicted men, his writing became passionate. The World, which pursued a more moderate course, fired Broun after requesting that he remain silent on the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heywood Brown on Sacco - Vanzetti | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

Camelot-on-Hudson. To Fowler, the Manhattan of his day was Camelot, and his fellow newsmen-Grantland Rice, Westbrook Pegler, Heywood Broun, Arthur Brisbane-were knights of the round table, which was usually a bar. Fowler's personal idol and friend was Alfred Damon Runyon. Despite his Broadway camaraderie, Runyon was a brooding, lonely man, and there were distinct traces of rube in his makeup. He believed that to count as a New York know-it-all, he had to unearth a champion heavyweight. Over the years he maintained a series of fighters who ate like lions and fought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Along the Rue Regret | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

...ANNE HEYWOOD New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1960 | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

Adams' pen pals-among them Dorothy Parker, Heywood Broun, Sinclair Lewis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: F.P.A. | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

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