Fixx was in charge of novelist Sloan Wilson when he joined TIME [REF].
In 1939, the triumvirate (Fixx, Cantwell, Chambers) challenged the Communist-controlled Time chapter of the Newspaper Guild by making a motion to send aid to Loyalists (Republicans) in the Spanish Civil War at a time, following the Hitler-Stalin Pact, Communists supported Nationalist (Falangists): they were defeated 42 to 3 [REF].