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...Post-Dispatch. Later, in his banking days, he was ready 24 hours a day to back a reporter's unforeseen needs (such as the price of a look at another man's cards), although some borrowers were "always casting their vile and rue" on him. "Heywood Broun put me out of business when he organized the Newspaper Guild," Sammy once observed. "The boys began making enough to tide them over." But Sammy Bronstein's biggest moment was yet to come. Two years ago, when the Missouri Pacific RR. reorganized, a $3,600 bond investment...
Swope started the World's famous "op. ed.," a page facing the editorials, and made it a showcase for a distinguished set of columnists: Heywood Broun, Franklin P. Adams, Alexander Woollcott, Laurence Stallings, Deems Taylor. He directed the investigations of the Ku-Klux Klan and peonage on Southern plantations that won the World Pulitzer Prizes. He took a proprietary interest in the news: "Who's covering my murder trial? Who's covering my snowstorm?" He told reporters: "Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences...
...chorus, led by Emily Romney and Heywood Alexander, showed the customary discipline and technical skill which has become characteristic of Harvard choral groups. What it lacks chiefly is a warmth and lyrical quality which is difficult to attain, but which should be the principal goal of an ensemble as competent as this...
Cows Are Not Vain. Next, Knopf berates reviewers, longs for the good old days of H. L. Mencken ("who could even sell a book by denouncing it, so arresting was his invective"), Heywood Broun and Yale's William Lyon Phelps, "at whom the intellectuals used to laugh but whose enthusiasms were really contagious." The only present-day reviewer contagious enough for Knopf is the New York Times's notoriously Phelpsian Orville Prescott. Says Knopf: Prescott can "make them buy the book he praises. We would all benefit enormously were there a dozen like him. Whether they were sound...
...Among its newspapermen's newspapermen: Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Nunnally Johnson, Franklin P. Adams, J. P. Marquand, Don Marquis, John O'Hara...