Word: soapboxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bring literature's best to Argentina," ended by being Argentina's own best literary mouthpiece. It has brought to Argentina, in Spanish, Andre Gide, Benedetto Croce, William Faulkner, Thomas Mann. It has forwarded the reputation v of Argentine prizewinners like Jorge Luis Borges, Eduardo Mallea, provided a soapbox for promising Argentine newcomers like J. R. Wilcock, Vicente Barbieri. Sur claims only 3,000 circulation, loses money on every issue, but has wide influence. Victoria foots the bills...
...last week hundreds of special pleaders had caught onto the fact that their money was as good as any department store's-and many a newspaper saw itself being turned into a soapbox. The news columns were easily policed, for publicity could still go into the wastebasket. But where should the line be drawn on such editorial advertising...
Abraham Lincoln (in bronze) had visitors in Manhattan's soapbox center, Union Square: a delegation from the National Republican Club, which deposited a wreath...
...second. The last three men he has picked to edit his London Evening Standard (circulation: 608,000) have been bright young journalists first, fiery leftists second. The advantages in each case were mutual-but temporary. The Beaver got a well-edited paper. For the leftists, the Standard was a soapbox, a springboard-and a handsome meal-ticket. So long as they could agree on "fundamentals" (Churchill as a war leader, aid to Russia) the wary alliance lasted. Last week the last of the three leftists gave...
...eyed dignity, and after the war courted and married her. As a Columbus lawyer's wife Harriet Day Bricker painted, played the piano, gardened, composed song lyrics, raised son Jackie, 13, quietly helped her husband become Governor of Ohio. An efficient, handsome hostess, Mrs. Bricker will make no soapbox speeches in her husband's coming campaign for the Vice-Presidency, will discuss no controversial issues. But she reserves the right to have strong personal convictions...