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It Seems to Heywood Broun
Broun, Heywood | June 11, 1930 issue

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The article discusses the travails of a columnist. From the point of view of working newspapermen, maybe the author ought to qualify that word "working," since a columnist lives by peculiar hours. If he is employed on an afternoon paper he ought to be up out of bed and on the job by three in the afternoon. If he lingers longer than that he is just plain lazy. Writing his column takes from half an hour to an hour-depending on how many contributions he gets. After his work is done he gets ready for dinner and then he goes to a show and after that a night club perhaps- that's called gathering material and it's very arduous and every columnist has to do it whether he wants to or not.

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REPORTERS & reporting; JOURNALISTS; AUTHORS; OCCUPATIONS; PROFESSIONS; JOURNALISM
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