December 27th, 2006 – Heywood Broun!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Dec.27, 2006, under Celebrity Illustrations
This week’s illustration is of writer/comunist/Algonquin Round Table member, Heywood Broun. He helped start the round-table meetings with contemporaries Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley. He also was well known for standing up for the little guy.
Here’s a concise biography:
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/broun-heywood.cfm
Time magazine’s story of Broun’s death in 1939:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,763317,00.html
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April 18th, 2007 on 5:09 pm
I sell art, and back in the 1980’s , TL, of the Sentinal Star was collecting
art of the 1930’s , old come and see my etchings. Well the story line
on the collection was the newspaper. and its Hard to find. But , one day
I was happy to find a Lithograph of Heywood Broun , at his typewriter,
cig,. hanging from his lip, paper’s stacked high. The Sentinal Star head,
did not know who Heywood Broun was , and did not see the importance.
I then new the world order had changed. People running the show, were,
not from the Newspaper world . And this seems to be happening in all
arena’s of Business. Heywood Broun will always be remembered.
the man who stripped our paper, and made it an advertising supplement……Well, what a memory,crippling our town.