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...columns." Frank R. Kent "delights in cruel jibes and acidulous comment that he will direct at a straw man." Boake Carter "could enter any intellectual goldfish swallowing contest." Arthur Krock "sometimes permits himself, without abating a whit of his stately authoritativeness, to 'hit too closely to the belt." Heywood Broun "is a genial philosopher who declines to take himself too seriously." Raymond Clapper "is one of the fairest, most objective and most intelligent of them all. . . . By the way, whatever became of Henry L. Mencken...
...York Herald Tribune's Walter Lippmann, whose salary was $62,476. Hearst's Arthur ("Bugs") Baer made $53,000. Walter Winchell $51,699. Scripps-Howard's Westbrook Pegler's $46,263 salary was $10,003 more than that of his friendly enemy, Heywood Broun.* Eleanor Roosevelt drew $16,587 (all pledged to charity); Hugh Johnson...
...Heywood Broun began writing his column in the World in 1921; F. P. A. moved The Conning Tower from the Tribune in 1922; in 1923 Walter Lippmann took charge of the editorial page; from 1925 to 1928 Alexander Woollcott flourished as the World's dramatic critic. Rollin Kirby wrote editorials when he felt like it, besides drawing his long-chinned Prohibitionist, his side-whiskered, potbellied G. O. Partisan and many another famed character. He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1921 (On the Road to Moscow), another in 1924 (News from the Outside World) and a third...
Music by Ruby Newman, introductions by Heywood Broun '10, "schnozzle" by Durante, songs by Ethel Merman, and satire at the expense of Harvard will be part of the bill of fare at the first annual Gridiron Show and Ball of the Boston Newspaper Guild at the Hotel Statler, Thursday evening, January...
...Heywood Broun 10, nationally known columnist and president of the American Newspaper Guild will be master of ceremonies. Governor Saltonstall, Governor Murphy of New Hampshire, and Mayor Tobin of Boston are a few of the political figures who have made their reservations...