Word: ginzburg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some day, somebody like Ralph Ginzburg will publish the best promotions of Ralph Ginzburg. It will include blurbs for Eros, the hard-cover quarterly "devoted to the joys of love"; Fact, the magazine that would "not hesitate to ask 'Where are the emperor's clothes?' "; and Avant-Garde, the journal pledged to generate "an orgasm of the mind."* And it will certainly include Ginzburg's pitches for his newest publishing venture, a consumer newsletter called Moneysworth...
...report," he says, "a poor man's version of what Consumer Reports does. I did not have the facilities to do a comprehensive job. I wish I had." Julty may never get them working for Moneysworth. Sitting in his Manhattan office behind a door marked DANGER!! HIGH VOLTAGE!! Ginzburg twits the techniques of the nation's leading consumer publication. "Consumer Reports sometimes leaves the reader more confused than when he started," he said. "They overload him with conflicting facts. They still leave the choice to the reader. We don't-we make...
...Only Avant-Garde survives. Eros ended in 1963, after four issues. Its brief life contributed to Ginzburg's being convicted of pandering through the mails (an appeal is still pending). Fact folded in 1967, three years after Barry Goldwater initiated a libel suit that eventually cost Ginzburg nearly...
...efforts to impugn Barry Goldwater's sanity during the 1964 presidential campaign have cost Publisher Ralph Ginzburg and his now defunct Fact magazine $91,795.08 in libel settlements. After mailing his personal check to the Senator's office, the flamboyant Ginzburg vowed to "continue to speak out on any issue that I consider important to the American people. To paraphrase Patrick Henry, I care not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me debt...
...language magazine Grant last March. Friends say that Solzhenitsyn has no idea how the play reached Grani, which is published by a fiercely anti-Soviet organization of Russian emigres in Frankfurt. What particularly worries Solzhenitsyn's friends is that when some other Soviet writers and intellectuals, including Alexander Ginzburg and Yuri Galanskov, were tried and convicted for anti-Soviet activities, their alleged connection with Grant's publishers was cited prominently by the state. Following the Grani incident, the Hamburg weekly Die Zeit published extracts in November of an epic poem, Prussian Nights, attributing it to Solzhenitsyn and promising...