- Wrote sports columns for The Washington Post newspaper from 1924 until his death (approximately 15,000 columns).
- Received the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for baseball writing in 1975.
- Mistakenly listed in the first (1958) edition of "Who's Who in American Women".
- Father of Maury Povich.
- Father-in-law of Connie Chung.
- Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 488-489. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1992.
- Inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.
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