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...more than a pulpiteer: he is one of the Church's ablest converters. Much in demand for instructing converts, he spends ten hours a week at this quiet, heart-&-soul job. Some of his more notable converts: the late Hoovercrat Horace A. Mann and his wife, the late Heywood Broun, whom Monsignor Sheen baptized, gave last rites to and buried (TIME, Jan. 1). Monsignor Sheen is now preparing Henry Ford's grandson Henry II for reception into the Church and marriage with a Catholic, Ann McDonnell. But on none of his big-name pupils did Monsignor Sheen lavish...
Held, who is deeply interested in animal life, is now working on the clay statue of a horse, "which may turn out to be a man or a mess." He is also planning a portrait bust of the late Heywood Broun '10, a close friend of the cartoonist...
Some of the most notable Leftist writers of the day wrote for Villard: Norman Thomas, Stuart Chase, Paul Y. Anderson, Heywood Broun, Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Van Doren. By 1935 they had far outstripped Villard's radical leanings, and he sold The Nation. Maurice Wertheim, a Manhattan financier and philanthropist, owned it for a brief spell, then passed it on in 1937 to Freda Kirchwey...
First thing he did was to hire some of the liberal features that Roy Howard's World-Telegram had dropped, including Cartoonist Rollin Kirby, Columnist Heywood Broun, who died after writing one column for the Post. Advertisers, including R. H. Macy & Co., responded by giving George Backer their accounts, upping the Post's linage...
...first radicalism in the Guild amounted to little more than sentiment on one side, suspicion on the other. Under Heywood Broun's benevolent influence the Guild at various times made resolutions in favor of freedom for Tom Mooney, industrial unionism, Franklin Roosevelt's plan to reform the courts; against fascism, war, Father Coughlin. But as the Guild grew in size and complexity its control was increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small circle of executives. Not their social sympathies but their power laid them open to suspicion...