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First thing he did was to hire some of the liberal features that Roy Howard's World-Telegram had dropped, including Cartoonist Rollin Kirby, Columnist Heywood Broun, who died after writing one column for the Post. Advertisers, including R. H. Macy & Co., responded by giving George Backer their accounts, upping the Post's linage...
...Requiem for the soul of the late Heywood Broun. There were faces from Washington (Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter), from City Hall (Mayor LaGuardia), from Broadway (Tallulah Bankhead, George M. Cohan, George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin), from newspaper row (pavement-pounding reporters along with Franklin P. Adams, Westbrook Pegler, Rollin Kirby, Roy W. Howard, Herbert Bayard Swope). Many friends of Heywood Broun, accustomed to going to church only for funerals and weddings, did not know when to kneel or bow. Few of them had ever heard a funeral oration like that which was presently delivered to them...
...opera, Mazeppa, had the town on its ear, wrote daring poems in the tradition of her good friend Walt Whitman. Henry George, tiny, tenacious, hopeful ex-sailor-prospector-typesetter and future author of Progress and Poverty, wrote on spiritualism and phrenology as well as political economy. Yellow Bird (John Rollin Ridge), half-Cherokee son of a Georgia plantation owner, contributed the West's most famous folk tale in The Life & Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit. Most talented woman writer was tall, dark-eyed Ina Donna Coolbrith, sweetheart of the writing colony, who kept her past...
...David Stern's and whose financial resources are greater. Young (36) Publisher Backer's first acts were to pay back, with interest, the 10% of their salaries the Post's staff members had been contributing to the paper since last September and to hire Cartoonist Rollin Kirby, who was dropped by the World-Telegram in March after he had shown himself too pronounced a liberal for the Scrippsless Scripps-Howard newspaper...
...hear Proprietor Eddie Davis, whose smutty jokes and songs like Myrtle Isn't Fertile Any More are subtle as a burglar alarm and rouse the house just as effectively, and who for ten years has had his trained-seal patrons dutifully bellow out the choruses of She Came Rollin' Down the Mountain...