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Scarcely had Heywood Broun's genial, untidy bulk been laid in its grave last winter when the American Newspaper Guild, which he had founded, burst into a bedlam of argument and dissension, like a roomful of children whose teacher has departed. Charges that the Guild was ruled by a handful of Communists and fellow travelers came to a head last month at the Guild convention in Memphis (TIME, July 22) when rebellious Guildsmen tried in vain to install a new regime...
...last nine months, sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued Columnist Westbrook Pegler, onetime Guildsman, onetime friend & neighbor of the Guild's first president, Heywood Broun, has pounded away relentlessly at the Guild with charges of Communist domination (TIME, Jan. 22). Six insurgent members of the executive board last spring banded together, issued a pamphlet attacking the Guild's management (on grounds of centralized power and incompetence) in words almost as strong as Pegler's. They went to Memphis last week bent on throwing the rascals...
Barman. Next day Guildsmen spent twelve hours nominating and electing officers. Insurgent Candidate Kenneth Crawford, who had filled out Heywood Broun's unfinished term, went down in defeat. By a vote of 78⅔ to 66⅓ Regular Candidate Donal Sullivan became the Guild's new president. Secure in the saddle remained Milton Kaufman, Victor Pasche, Morris Watson...
Columnists Westbrook Pegler, the late Heywood Broun (both onetime baseball writers) and many a sportswriter have protested against color discrimination in big-league baseball. The owners and managers say that their Southern players and their visits to Southern training camps would make trouble if Negroes were on the team. But many a shepherd of a limping major club has made no secret of his yearning to trade more than a couple of buttsprung outfielders for colored players of the calibre of Satchelfoots Paige...
...school graduates in detecting that what they heard was fiction. But generally, Dr. Cantril's researchers found, critical ability was affected by other factors tending to create susceptibility. Most significant of these were universal insecurity, worries, phobias, fatalism, war fear. To sum up, Dr. Cantril quoted the late Heywood Broun: "Jitters have come to roost...