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...occurred to "Copey" to acquaint his listeners with the writing of some Harvard man-the late Poet Allan Seeger, who was doubtless one of the hundreds of men-with whom "Copey" kept up a lively correspondence as his contribution to the War; or Funnyman Robert Benchley, of Life; or Heywood Broun, idly-ambling colyumist of the New York World...
...World were Harvard men; Ralph, the elder, having been graduated an A. B. in 1900; younger Joseph having attended, 1904-06. The executive editor of the World, red-headed Herbert B. Swope, would have been Harvard '03 but for an accident. The lumbering World confessionist-colyumist, Heywood Broun, had sat to Harvard professors from 1906 to 1910. And the World editorial writer, Walter Lippmann, fierce purist, who had doubtless dictated the World's rebuke, had in his precocious youth completed the four-year Harvard course in three years, aged 20 ('09), and stayed a year to study...
FRANK SULLIVAN is a bright young man who first came to the notice of readers of the New York World by filling in for Heywood Broun while the latter was vacationing. Broun's "It Seems to Me" column became for the nonce "It Seems to Me Too", and even the most devout Brounonians grudgingly admitted that this fellow Sullivan wasn't so bad. But Broun returned in due course and his bright young substitute retired to a less conspicuous page of the World, where he continued to offer his humorous wares to those who cared to seek...
...least the organization termed the Book-of-the-Mouth Club is possessed of a fearless Seleering Committee. Twice has the honor of being the best book been awarded to authors formerly unknown to literature. The judges including such people as Henry Seidel Canby, Heywood Broun, and Christopher Morley, are also evidently good precursors of popular taste, for almost every prize winner eventually reaches the list of best sellers...
...York World's crack columists; "It Seems to Me" by Heywood Broun and "The Life and Times of Martha Hepplethwaite" by Frank Sullivan...