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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Henriette Cox Broun, 93, mother of the late columnist and American Newspaper Guild founder, Heywood Broun; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In her youth a fiery socialist, pacifist and women's rights pioneer, she changed her views in later years, became a persistent writer of letters-to-the-editor, urging "fair treatment for employers," good-naturedly feuded with son Heywood, who thumb-nailed her as a "confirmed reactionary and a bridge player." Predicted Broun: "When the revolution comes, it's going to be a tough problem what to do with her. We will either have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MILESTONES: Milestones, may 28, 1951 | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

Lederer's background qualifies him for what he calls "P-R" work and also for naval leadership: born in New York City, 1912; radio factory worker; school reporter for The New York Times and New York Post; secretary to Heywood Broun; enlisted in Navy to get education; Naval Academy, 1932-36; skipper of cruiser Great Falls in 1945; Navy Cross; Korean War, 1950; author of "All the Ships at Sea," a naval autobiography, and "The Last Cruise." When he is not attending classes or telling sea stories to other Niemans, Lederer can be found in Lowell D-21, where...

Author: By Fog BOUND Estuary, | Title: Silhouette | 5/3/1951 | See Source »

They called themselves the Vicious Circle, and one day as they trooped out after lunch-Robert Sherwood, Dorothy Parker, George Kaufman, Bob Benchley, Heywood Broun and the rest-a pressagent paid them his passing respects. "There," said he, "goes the greatest collection of unsalable wit in America." Not too long after, most of them were naming their own prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bores Off Bounds | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Tall, slender, bespectacled Ring Lardner, 34, grew up in Great Neck, Long Island, went to Andover and Princeton. At home Ring Sr. never discussed political issues, but the sardonic views that salted his writings also flavored his conversation. Or as his friend Heywood Broun put it, in the jargon of their set: "Under an insulation of isolation and indifference, Ring boiled with a passion against smugness and hypocrisy and the hard heart of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: Ring & the Proletariat | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...Poston, 43, Negro reporter for the New York Post, the American Newspaper Guild's Heywood Broun memorial award, for journalism "in the spirit" of Crusader Broun. Despite threats from anti-Negro hoodlums, Poston covered the Florida trial of three Negroes charged with rape. The Broun jury gave another "first prize" to the Washington Post's Herbert L. Block ("Herblock"), 40, for his pointed, powerful cartoons (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Awards | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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