Word: martyrizing
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...motives, innumerable "angles," sprawled like tentacles through the redolent demimonde of Los Angeles politics. The memory of Chicago's Racketeer-Reporter Jake Lingle was still too fresh to allow a repetition in Journalist Spencer's case of the public error of canonizing him too soon as a martyr, a public crusader like Canton, Ohio's revered Editor Don R. Mellett...
Clergymen have been hailing Lutheran Pastor Emil Swenson of Minneapolis who accepted a court sentence rather than reveal secrets confided to him by a parish- ioner (TIME, March 16). The Press, which also hailed Pastor Swenson, last week hailed even more loudly a "martyr" of its own: youthful, dapper Edmond M. Barr, dramatic critic and ace newshawk of the Dallas Dispatch. Reporter Barr went to jail rather than break journalism's proud rule: Never expose your pipelines. Reporter Barr wrote for his paper of how two Communist organizers, C. J. Coder and Lewis Hurst, were taken from the city...
...cautiously climbed the Massachusetts "escalator." Two dozen months of spotlight put completely in the shadow Herbert Hoover's world-significant career, and robbed him of whatever sentiment had been attached to his name. Losing faith in the Press, he has come to think of himself as a martyr in a hair shirt, misunderstood and misinterpreted by the People...
...hundred thousand Indians surrounded the funeral pyre of Martyr Motilal Nehru when it was presently set up at Allahabad, at the junction of the Jumna and the Holy River Ganges. The calm and temperate dead man's fiery and reckless son, Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru, was present with Afflatus Gandhi when the pyre was lighted. "I said to him not long before he died," Gandhi told the multitude, " 'My dear friend, we will surely win home rule, if you survive this crisis.' "He replied, 'Why, you've already won home rule!' ': In the excitement...
...knife. Economical Poet Alexander Pope kept copies of his love letters. Baudelaire did Pope one better: sent exact duplicates to two women at once. Pierre Loving tries to explain his hero's complex character thus: "Artifice and stoicism, these were the keys to the unassailable life of the Chesterfieldian martyr and saint...