![]() ![]() He went from Broadway to CBS in 1966, where he worked for two decades as a color commentator on a wide variety of sporting events, including the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing alongside his colleague Jack Whitaker. Woodie was married to Jane Lloyd Jones, and they had one son, Heywood Orren Broun, known as Hob, a novelist, who predeceased his parents in 1987. When the war ended he returned to the PM newspaper and wrote for its successor, the New York Star, which ceased operations in 1949. His career was interrupted by World War II in which he served in the United States Army field artillery. In 1940, Broun joined the staff at the New York tabloid PM as a sportswriter. Broun was educated at Hessian Hills School and other private schools and Swarthmore College near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ![]()
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