Word: antivivisectionism
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In his 94 years. George Bernard Shaw took up every sort of cause from Fabianism to vegetarianism to antivivisection. But he had one obsession that puzzled even his closest friends. "They think it a huge joke," he once complained. "It's the most serious proposal of my life." His...
Those closest to young Hearst predict that he will soon drop such Hearstian acts as antivivisection campaigns, try to get a note of restraint into editorials. Young Bill has a tough job; the Hearst chain, long faltering, was saved mainly by the lush advertising of World War II and the...
Wrong Number. To the Examiner, Trauger's warning was new evidence of depravity. It ran full pages of photographs depicting sad-eyed mongrels in various stages of "torture." But last week the Examiner's campaign backfired. On Page One, in a top head adjoining the antivivisection campaign story...
Privately, Hearstlings thought they knew why the News was gaining on them. In the Herald-American, Chicagoans were still getting the Hearstian formula of sex, sensation, antivivisection and Mac-Arthur-for-President. Herald-American staffers were sure that they could do better by dropping the canned crusades in favor of...
Last week, prompted by Hearstlings, prominent citizens gave out statements for symposiums swatting the barflies. Pastors preached in favor of the campaign, and judges anxious to get their pictures in the paper took it for a text in lecturing defendants. As a moral crusade, it was taking its place alongside...