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...poker player who usually wins and a pinkish liberal who earnestly omits tact is Columnist Heywood Broun. One day last week, the following announcement appeared in the New York World at the top of the space usually devoted to his column...
...World has decided to dispense with the services of Heywood Broun. His disloyalty to this paper makes any further association impossible...
...long ago a Sunday editor [of the World) insisted on editing a contribution to one of the newspaper columns. Somebody had written in to say that before the triumphs of Lindbergh most Americans had regarded all Scandinavians as dullwitted. 'Heywood,' said the responsible editor, 'don't you realize that our Swedish readers would be offended...
...Heywood Broun's comment on Terry of the Dean's office, reprinted Saturday, focuses attention on that curious and fascinating group of human beings known as "characters", and doubtless calls forth sighs from the older alumni, who deplore the passing of the men that once gave a spice of variety to Harvard life. Long years have passed since John the Orangeman and his donkey-cart trundled through Cambridge, and the original Poco visited dormitories with a load of old clothes over his arm. But the extinction of the individual does not mean the extinction of the species; and there...
...Harvard I have tried to live down, and when I want to go upon a party I hardly think it would be pleasant to be reminded at the very door of gayety that once I was far less clever than I profess to be at present. Heywood Broun in the New York World...