Word: broun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since Henry Ford Sr., Will Rogers and Heywood Campbell Broun appeared in its inaugural pages in the May 16, 1927, issue of TIME, the People section has consistently been one of the magazine's best-read features. "Celebrities are both role models and instant icons," says Staff Writer Guy D. Garcia, who has written the People page since 1983. "When it comes to the glitterati, I guess folks haven't changed much." As many readers will have noticed, People has a lively new look these days. The section now features a special "strip," designed by Assistant Art Director Billy Powers...
...framed by dealers or patrons, not by the artists, and curators have often felt free to update. Two years ago, the National Museum of American Art, in Washington, took the reverse route, restoring ornate frames to paintings it had earlier reset in plain wooden strips. Says Chief Curator Elizabeth Broun: "We thought it was more historically correct...
William Manchester ¶A Private View, Irene Mayer Selznick ¶-Whose Little Boy Are You? Heywood Hale Broun...
...child, called Woodie, was named for his father, one of the most popular and whimsical journalists of his time. Typically, at the zenith of a Florida hurricane, the elder Broun took his son to a golf driving range. Swinging a nine iron, he yelled over the wind: "You'll never get distance like this again." He got more mileage from his columns, evocative pieces that spoke knowledgeably about politics, baseball and Broadway. Between deadlines he founded the Newspaper Guild and remained its president until his death in 1939. Ten thousand mourners attended his funeral...
...Woodie slowly pieced himself together, his home disintegrated. Heywood Sr., a large, rumpled man of prodigious appetites, prided himself on looking like an unmade bed. It was a bed that welcomed many female visitors. The warring Brouns kept the marriage alive by retreating to separate houses. Woodie shuttled between them until he was forced to choose between parents. He opted to live with his father, a decision that merely added to his misery and guilt. A year after the divorce, in 1934, Ruth was dead. Broun Sr., a lifelong atheist, converted to Roman Catholicism shortly before his death...