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...Union of American Republics." In 1910 the organization got its present Spanish-colonial-style headquarters in Washington and a permanent secretariat, the Pan American Union. It then began a three-decade period of drowsy eclipse. For 26 years it was run as an international banqueting society by Director General Leo S. Rowe, a penny-pinching lowan who invariably served lamb stew to hold down overhead...
...Brooklyn research team, Dr. Leo Gitman reported on a careful scientific study of oldsters, in which one group received procaine injections, and another got exactly the same food and care, but without the procaine injections. The doctor could find no difference that could be unequivocally attributed to the procaine. Dr. Gitman sat down to a long roar of applause...
Satirist Ehrenburg also leads his pantaloon pilgrim to some slapstick swipes at Communist literature of the period. Although all he knew about the subject was that "Leo Tolstoy had a handsome beard just like Karl Marx," the little tailor becomes an "inexorable" Marxist literary critic. As pundit of proletarian literature -which is what Ehrenburg himself became after he ended his Paris stay in 1940 and went home-Lasik writes a preface for a socialist realist novel about romance in a soap factory ("Dunja yielded to the beat of new life, and whispered, blushing slightly: 'You see. we have surpassed...
...FALL DOWN (272 pp.)-James Leo Herlihy-Dutton...
Died. Richard Leo Simon, 61, co-founder with M. Lincoln Schuster of Simon & Schuster, Inc. publishing house, a former piano and book salesman who in 1924 helped launch the firm with the world's first crossword-puzzle collection (an immediate bestseller now in its 84th edition), concentrated largely on nonfiction and self-improvement works (Wendell Willkie's One World, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People), pioneered paperback publication with Pocket Books in 1939; of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn...