The Press: Transfer

For some three years mountainous Columnist Heywood Broun has been feuding with his little boss, Roy Howard, president and editor of the New York World-Telegram. It all started when Editor Howard turned against the New Deal, leaving Broun to go his leftish way alone. The World-Telegram began to cut, edit and omit Broun columns. Broun hit back at Roy Howard in his own paper, wrote an indignant piece about him for The New Republic.

Last week Hatfield Broun put an end to his feud with McCoy Howard by signing a new contract with the New York Post, to take effect day after his World-Telegram contract expires next week. The Post, in place of Scripps-Howard's United Feature Syndicate, will distribute Broun's column to other papers. A sportswriter before he became a columnist, Broun will also turn out stories on baseball and racing for the Post.

By his transfer Broun stands to lose both money and circulation. Scripps-Howard gave him $39,000 a year, close to 3,000,000 readers. From the Post he admits that he will get "considerably less" in salary, plus whatever he nets on syndicate sales. The Post's circulation is only 252,145, compared to the World-Telegram's 414,759. And some papers that now use his column will undoubtedly drop it.