Word: lincoln
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Samuel Sidney McClure, original muckraking publisher (McClure's Magazine, 1893-1914), won the Order of Merit of the National Institute of Arts and Letters for his past journalistic crusades. Now white-thatched, withered, 87, the onetime editor of Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Winston Churchill's father Randolph has been working for years on a book called The Coming of Freedom. Said National Institute President Arthur ("Mr. Tutt") Train: "The American people owe a great debt to this man, once famous, now almost forgotten." Said old-time Editor McClure (who will...
...last week of February and the first [two weeks] of March [were] a peculiarly lethal time for American authors; five of them died. James Boyd, John Thomason, Joseph Lincoln, Irvin Cobb, Hendrik van Loon - that is the list. In the opinion of a good many competent critics, James Boyd was by far the most solidly important of them...
...must not inadvertently slip into the same condition internally as the one which we fight externally. Like Abraham Lincoln, I am a firm believer in the people, and, if given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring before them the real facts...
...from the Scaffold. The Siqueiros Art for Victory movement got under way early last year in Chile, where Muralist Siqueiros fled while awaiting his trial. There he painted Death for the Invader, a mural regarded by the Modern Museum's Lincoln Kirstein as "the most important pictoric work since the Cubist Revolution of 1911." But peering down from his scaffold, Siqueiros observed that Latin American artists were doing nothing for the war, that they had lost touch with the masses, that Latin American governments had not given their artists a chance to develop. So he tore off a manifesto...
...Nelson Rockefeller paid him $2,500 for two movable murals (Two Mountains of America: Lincoln and Marti,* and The New Day of Democracy) to be donated to Cuban public institutions...