Death of Croly
Asked to enumerate U. S. liberal editors of consequence, one might name Oswald Garrison Villard (The Nation), Herbert David Croly (The New Republic)and search one's mind in vain for others. Last week the little list was halved by Death, which came to Editor Croly in Santa Barbara, at the age of 61, of progressive paralysis.
It was in 1914, during a sea trip, that Herbert David Croly met the late financier-diplomat Major Willard Straight & Mrs. Straight, sister of Financier-Sports-man Harry Payne Whitney (she is now Mrs. Leonard K....
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