Biography:

Journalist; columnist. Born– January 5, 1901, in Mattoon, Ill.(moved to Birmingham as a child).  Parents– John Bernard and Mary MacDonough Mallon. Married Viola Jane Wingreene, June 29, 1929. Education–University of  Louisville, 1918-19; University of Notre Dame, 1919-20.  Writer for Louisville Courier Journal, Brooklyn Eagle, Louisville Post, South Bend News-Herald. Political writer for President Calvin Coolidge. United Press, 1920-32. Wrote column, “News Behind the News,” syndicated in 300 newspapers, 1930-1947.   Honorary degrees from Marquette University, College of Holy Cross, Notre Dame (1946). Died July 30, 1950.

Source:

Files at Birmingham Public Library.

Marquis Who’s Who online

Publication(s):

The Ease Era; the Juvenile Oligarchy and the Educational Trust. Grand Rapids, Mich.; William B. Eerdmans, 1945.

Practical Idealism. Boston; B. Humphries, Inc., 1946.