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...Ablest all-round: Homer S. Brown...
...Secretary of State Hull's ablest agents, a Boston Yankee who has been able to push the pushy Japanese around, sailed homeward from Tokyo last week. He is Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, going home for a vacation and a course in the more or less continuous seminar for Ambassadors conducted by Franklin Roosevelt...
Brought up in a substantial Episcopal family, Heywood Broun is one of the ablest Bible-quoters in U. S. journalism. At Harvard he was most influenced by a course in the Bible as English Literature. He is today happily married to a Catholic second wife-Constantina Maria Incoronata Fruscella Dooley ("Connie") Broun. But "Connie," firm as she is in dealing with her husband, did not bully him into turning Catholic. Broun's conversion came slowly, was sealed in the talk with the newspaper friend turned priest-Rev. Edward Patrick Dowling, S. J., 40, associate editor of the Queen...
...intellectual conviction that the Church is the True Church. You must then exhibit a "good will to believe" in God's revelation. Finally you must make the act of faith, wholly supernatural, in God. At present Heywood Broun is receiving instruction in Catholic belief from one of the ablest of U. S. priests, Monsignor Fulton John Sheen (who also instructed Convert Mann). Columnist Broun will be received into the Church late this month. Thereafter he may well become the U. S. equivalent of a famed British convert-the late Gilbert Keith Chesterton, stylist, wit, rough-&-tumble fighter...
...number of good men to have on the board of trustees, among them Harvard's eminent scholar and mentor of curators, Professor Paul Joseph Sachs. As Professor Sachs returned from a trip abroad in June 1929, Mr. Goodyear shook his hand and asked him to name the ablest candidate available for the directorship of a modern museum. He named Alfred Hamilton Barr...