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...Match Co., has major interests in a nationwide string of enterprises ranging from insurance to railroads. Multimillionaire Simon created his empire by buying undervalued companies and building them up. Convinced in 1953 that magazine publishing was being underrated as a result of TV competition, he bought stock in Curtis, McGraw-Hill, Conde Nast and McCall, decided to concentrate on McCall. Simon now controls 35% of the stock, enough to have eight men of his choice put on the 16-man board three months ago. Although Simon insists he does not have corporate control, this stock gives him what he calls...
...YEAR OF MY REBIRTH (342 pp.)- Jesse Stuart-McGraw-Hill...
...stress and theorizing about it, Selye has subjected himself to what he frankly admits has been a stressful experience. From millions of words in technical journals he has distilled the essence of his facts and theories into a layman's guide, The Stress of Life, published this week (McGraw-Hill...
BOSWELL IN SEARCH OF A WIFE, edited by Frank Brady and Frederick A. Pottle (390 pp.; McGraw-Hill; $6), is Volume VI of the Boswell Papers being brought out by a Yale task force of scholars. It follows young Boswell (he had not yet written his Life of Samuel Johnson) through three years (1766-69) while he was trying to find a wife rich enough to make him a wealthy man, beautiful enough to make him a happy man, pious enough to make him a good man. "Bozzy's" solemn efforts to fill this tall order make scandalously funny...
...VOICE AT THE BACK DOOR (334 pp.) - Elizabeth Spencer - McGraw-Hill...