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Lederer's background qualifies him for what he calls "P-R" work and also for naval leadership: born in New York City, 1912; radio factory worker; school reporter for The New York Times and New York Post; secretary to Heywood Broun; enlisted in Navy to get education; Naval Academy, 1932-36; skipper of cruiser Great Falls in 1945; Navy Cross; Korean War, 1950; author of "All the Ships at Sea," a naval autobiography, and "The Last Cruise." When he is not attending classes or telling sea stories to other Niemans, Lederer can be found in Lowell D-21, where...
They called themselves the Vicious Circle, and one day as they trooped out after lunch-Robert Sherwood, Dorothy Parker, George Kaufman, Bob Benchley, Heywood Broun and the rest-a pressagent paid them his passing respects. "There," said he, "goes the greatest collection of unsalable wit in America." Not too long after, most of them were naming their own prices...
Tall, slender, bespectacled Ring Lardner, 34, grew up in Great Neck, Long Island, went to Andover and Princeton. At home Ring Sr. never discussed political issues, but the sardonic views that salted his writings also flavored his conversation. Or as his friend Heywood Broun put it, in the jargon of their set: "Under an insulation of isolation and indifference, Ring boiled with a passion against smugness and hypocrisy and the hard heart of the world...
...Poston, 43, Negro reporter for the New York Post, the American Newspaper Guild's Heywood Broun memorial award, for journalism "in the spirit" of Crusader Broun. Despite threats from anti-Negro hoodlums, Poston covered the Florida trial of three Negroes charged with rape. The Broun jury gave another "first prize" to the Washington Post's Herbert L. Block ("Herblock"), 40, for his pointed, powerful cartoons (TIME...
...Including Walter Lippmann, Heywood Broun, John Reed, Stuart Chase, Alan Seeger. *Eliot's avowed admiration for Pound (who "discovered" him) has provoked bitter criticism. Last year, a jury of Fellows in American Letters of the U.S. Library of Congress, including T. S. Eliot, awarded the annual $1,000 Bollingen Prize for the "highest achievement of American poetry" to Ezra Pound (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949), who was then in an insane asylum and under indictment for treason (he had spent the war in Italy as propaganda broadcaster for Mussolini). Some critics attacked Eliot as being chiefly responsible for the award...