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Never kudized have been Frank Lloyd Wright, Felix Frankfurter, George Soule, H. L. Mencken, Heywood Broun, Carl Van Doren. Members of the U. S. Senate might be considered prime material, but among unhonored Senators are Nebraska's George Norris, Wisconsin's Robert Marion La Follette Jr., Montana's Burton Kendall Wheeler. Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis got his last honorary degree...
Another standing dislike is pressagentry. Marlen Pew also shares with his great friend Roy Wilson Howard a dislike of the American Newspaper Guild, often crosses journalistic swords with the Guild's redoubtable President Heywood Broun. Another Pew bugaboo is the stage reporter. Scornfully cried Editor Pew on one occasion: "The corrupt, cheapskate movie-type reporter may exist, but I do not know...
Cleveland newshawks got together three years ago to talk of organizing to protect their jobs, shorten hours, raise pay. Soon they heard that similar meetings were being held in Manhattan, Minneapolis and St. Paul. Result was American Newspaper Guild, founded in December 1933 with shaggy, drawling Scripps-Howard Columnist Heywood Campbell Broun as its president. Though some of the members at first did not like to proclaim it as such, the new Guild was a labor union from the start. Last week in Manhattan's Hotel Astor, the third annual Guild convention enthusiastically admitted this fact when instructed delegates...
...Townsend Copeland Association, which gathers yearly for this occasion, represents a unique group in literary history. So far as is known, it forms the only alumni society ever dedicated to a living man. The members, all former pupils of Copey, include such men as Walter D. Edmonds, Walter Lippmam, Heywood Broun. Bernard DeVoto, Donald Moffat, and Oliver LaFarge...
Recently I have been rereading those articles of Heywood Broun which are brought together in his book, "it seems to Me." It is easy enough to discern the man's talents and to see why it is that the sophisticated world "goes for him."In fact, I envy not a little his art of happy phrasing, dramatic power, conciseness, together with the whole bag of tricks which he has mastered. However, I think that all this brilliance and techniques make me dislike the more this man's writings for art in such a case makes palpable half-truths and even...