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...York was amused to hear last week that Heywood Broun, big, shambling syndicated colyumist for the New York Telegram, would run as the Socialist candidate for the House of Representatives in the "silk stocking" district of Manhattan now represented by Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt...
When Composer Joseph Deems Taylor collaborated with Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay on the opera The King's Henchman in 1927, their work evoked such acclaim that Composer Taylor was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera to do another. First he worked on Heywood Broun's allegorical Candle Follows His Nose, dropped it, set to work on Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning Street Scene. In November 1929, he shelved that, went into seclusion at his home eight miles from Stamford, Conn, for a third start. Last week he emerged, announced that "by the grace of God" he had finished libretto...
...agrees with Heywood Broun that good football games like good wine are better for the mellowing effect of age. Harvard and Princeton students of today regret that Harvard men of yesterday published a Lampoon of many barbs, that Princeton men paraded down Nassau Street on the night of the break rejoicing. --The Daily Princetonian...
When the searchlight was turned on Harvard's wage scale for scrubwomen, such well-known liberals as Heywood Broun and innumerable people less well-known voiced amazement at the University's stinginess. Even the CRIMSON had something to say about Harvard's ponnypinching attitude...
...Church of the Transfiguration ("The Little Church Around the Corner") opened, for the first time since 1907, free meal counters for 1,000 unemployed per day. Mrs. Irving T. Bush set up a food dispensary which lined up the jobless for two blocks. Demands on charity organizations doubled. Colyumist Heywood Broun started a "Give-a-job-till-June" crusade in the New York Telegram...