Background
Ruth Hagy Brod was born on May 31, 1911 in New York City, New York, United States to the family of Abraham Fleischman and Jeanette Rapaport.
Senator Estes Kefauver on the left stands next to Ruth Hagy Brod on the right.
Brod studied at the University of Chicago College of Music, which she graduated in 1929 as a Bachelor of Music.
Ruth Hagy Brod with Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
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journalist literary agent writer television host government worker
Ruth Hagy Brod was born on May 31, 1911 in New York City, New York, United States to the family of Abraham Fleischman and Jeanette Rapaport.
Brod demonstrated talent in music as a young girl. Growing up in Chicago, she gave her first piano recitals at the age of six. She studied at the University of Chicago, College of Music, which she graduated in 1929 as a Bachelor of Music.
After graduation, Hagy Brod turned from music to journalism. At age twenty-five, she moved to Hollywood, where she was an editor for the Macfadden movie and radio magazines from 1936 to 1938.
From Hollywood, she moved to Philadelphia, where she wrote features for the Philadelphia Ledger from 1938 to 1941. Over the years, she worked for the New York Graphic, the Chicago Daily American, the Chicago Daily Times, the Chicago Daily News, and the Philadelphia Bulletin. She also worked as a radio reporter and documentary filmmaker.
During World War II, she served as publicity director for the United War Chest campaigns and was a member of the women’s advisory board executive committee for the United States Savings Bond division of the United States Treasury from 1942 to 1946.
After the war, she became women’s editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin in 1946. While there, she initiated the Bulletin Forum, which she developed in 1952 into the “College News Conference.” The Sunday programs featured a panel of college students who questioned prominent figures in politics, labor, and government.
In 1961, she traveled to Latin America and served as an educational television adviser to the Colombian government while producing a Peace Corps documentary film. She also produced a television series on Asian women and was a correspondent in Southeast Asia for the now-defunct North American Newspaper Alliance. She was a Far East correspondent for NBC Radio Press International and others.
In 1962, she returned to New York. There, she formed Ruth Hagy Productions and News Service. In the mid-1960s, she was asked to develop JOIN (Job Orientation in Neighborhoods) and served as special assistant to Mayor Robert F. Wagner. In the late 1960s, she was the founder-director of the Mayor’s Coordinating Council under Mayor John V. Lindsay.
As a book author, her choice of topics was offbeat. She coauthored The Edgar Cayce Handbook of Health Through Drugless Therapy and Ena Twigg, Medium.
As a literary agent, she took on two famous clients each of whom came to a violent end: Allard K. Lowenstein, a former United States congressman and civil rights activist who was slain in March 1980, and James Hoffa, the Teamsters union leader, whose memoirs she was negotiating to publish at the time of his disappearance in 1975.
She died of lung cancer on May 9, 1980, at age sixty-eight, in Freeport, Bahamas.
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Ruth Hagy Brod was widowed twice. Her first husband was Anatol Frikin, whom she married in 1929, and with whom she had a daughter, Sybil Joan Lefferts. She married Lewis Hagy in 1932. She married Ed Albert Thomas Brod in 1954.