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...have been many: he scooped other newsmen because he knew what the grand jury was doing, while they did not; he had the satisfaction of watching as the grand jury handed down 34 indictments based often on evidence Dillard Stokes had dug up; in July 1942 he received the Heywood Broun Memorial award for "persistent, tireless, intelligent" newspaper effort...
...announced smugly: ". . . exciting news for New Yorkers . . . John Kieran is coming. . . . His daily column 'One Small Voice' will be limited only by the scope and fertility of the Kieran mind. ..." The fertile Kieran mind had sprouted the seed which has been observed in other sportswriters, notably Heywood Broun and Westbrook Pegler-the desire to break away from the confinements of sports columning, to reach into the grab bag of memory, to write about anything and everything...
...Heywood Broun was at his best when he wrote about the things he spent his life reporting. Baseball was one of those subjects, and "The Sun Field" was a sparkling novel of the lives of the baseball players he knew so well. But Milton Lazarus' dramatization of the novel only serves to show how much of its original success was due to the salty vigor with which Broun plunged into a topic he knew and understood...
...covering the walls of four large rooms, Bacon-lovers saw 35 pastels (including twelve caricatures of men & women who nevertheless remain Miss Bacon's friends), 74 drypoints (including The Socialist Meeting and Backstairs Gossip), 13 etchings (including Colored Folks and Mad About Dancing), twelve lithographs (including caricatures of Heywood Broun and Mayor LaGuardia), eight drawings...
Roosevelt's Charm. Correspondent Clark's favorite story: As Heywood Broun left the White House he said to a friend, "Did you notice he agreed with everything I said?" Replied his friend. "No he didn't; he just smiled...