Word: rollins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Requiem for the soul of the late Heywood Broun. There were faces from Washington (Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter), from City Hall (Mayor LaGuardia), from Broadway (Tallulah Bankhead, George M. Cohan, George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin), from newspaper row (pavement-pounding reporters along with Franklin P. Adams, Westbrook Pegler, Rollin Kirby, Roy W. Howard, Herbert Bayard Swope). Many friends of Heywood Broun, accustomed to going to church only for funerals and weddings, did not know when to kneel or bow. Few of them had ever heard a funeral oration like that which was presently delivered to them...