Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-12-18 | Page 3 | Heywood Brown, Columnist, Dies

HEYVOOD BROUN.', COLUMNIST, DIES NEW YORK, Dec. 18 UP Heywood Hey-wood Broun, 51, president of the American Newspaper guild and New York Pott columnist, died this morning of pneumonia In Harkness pavilion of the Columbia Presbyterian medical center. Broun's condition, 'complicated bv heart trouble, took a turn for the worse early today. Yesterday and Saturday he had seemed to be I m p r oving. He was taken 111 Thursday. Only one of Broun's columns appeared In the New York Post after his switch last week from the World Telegram. Tele-gram. That was on Friday. Broun's last col- umn in the World Heyweod Broua Telegram appeared on Thursday. Mayor LaGuardia said in a statement: state-ment: "I have lost a close personal friend. He was a clear thinker and a courageous writer, a rare Governor Albert H. Lehman said: "His death is a great loss, not only to journalism! but W -the public as -a whole." Heywood Campbell Broun was born In Brooklyn December 7, 1888. He began his 30 years of newspaper newspa-per work with the New York Morning Morn-ing Telegraph in 1910 and two years later joined the New York Tribune. , After some years as reporter sports writer, drama critic and book reviewer, the Tribune Trib-une made him a columnist because one day he had neglected to read a book and Instead wrote 800 words about his dog. In 1921 he joined the New York World, but was discharged seven years later because, in the May 4, 1928, Issue of The Nation, he attacked at-tacked his employers' editorial stand on the Sacco-Vanzetti case. He transferred his column to the New York Telegram, which later became the World Telegram, He was once a member of the Socialist party, on whose ticket he ran unsuccessfully for congress in 1930. In recent years he was several sev-eral times described as a communist commu-nist and always denied it, sometimes some-times with considerable heat. Broun was a founder of the American Newspaper guild and Its first president. Son of Heywood Cox and Hen-riette Hen-riette (Brose) Broun, he was married mar-ried to Ruth Hale, head of the Lucy Stone league, on June 6, 1917. They had one child, Heywood Hey-wood Hale Broun, and were divorced di-vorced in 1934. His second wife was Mrs. Johnny Dooley, known on the stage as- Connie Madison, whom he married January 9, 1935. Broun's last column for the New York World Telegram contained an appendage by his editor, Roy W. Howard. In it Broun said that "Any notion that Roy Howard and I fought up and down the stairs of the city room and all the way up to the editorial office; In Park venue Is completely erroneous." "We had a few quarrels," he wrote, "but there was no major column of mine which got held up on editorial policy. One did have the feeling at times that it was away out of step with the policy of the paper. And yet nobody drove up in a hack to inform you of that fact." Howard followed that by writing: writ-ing: "Despite the uninformed and unimportant un-important busybodies who have long whispered and rumored of a feud which never existed, the editor, edi-tor, like Heywood, has not now, and never has had, a squawk coming. com-ing. Mr. Broun was hired to be himself. In 12 year no column, paragraph or phrase of his was killed or censored by the editor because of disagreeing viewpoint or conflict with the World Telegram's Tele-gram's editorial policy." Both men concluded by wishing each other luck.