journalist
. He worked as a sportswriter, newspaper
columnist
, and editor
in New York City
. He founded the American Newspaper Guild, now known as The Newspaper Guild. Born in Brooklyn
, New York
, he is best remembered for his writing on social issues and his championing of the underdog. He believed that journalists could help right wrongs, especially social ills.
Broun was born in Brooklyn
, the third of four children born to Heywood C.
Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.
In the march up to the heights of fame, there comes a spot close to the summit in which a man reads nothing but detective stories.
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.