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Twice a year they descend, a 10,000-strong army of the night, on New York University's Shimkin Hall. There they wait patiently in line to register, at $55 to $117 a ten-to twelve-week session, for more than 800 courses ranging from Arabic to Zen. The electronically minded can choose from among 75 courses that explicate computer wizardry; language devotees can immerse themselves in Gaelic, Serbo-Croatian or Swahili. There are more than 80 courses in the down-to-earth business of real estate. And a beguiling "Broadway Matinee" course offers tickets to four shows...
Since the South Vietnamese started their counteroffensive north of Hué last month, four cameramen have been killed and Newsweek Reporter Alexander Shimkin is missing in an ambush and presumed dead. Freelance Photographer Gerard Hebert was cut down by artillery while talking with a U.S. adviser on the outskirts of Quang Tri city. British Freelancer James Gill was killed while covering the South Vietnamese marines attacking the city...
...Leon Shimkin, a voluble and supremely confident Brooklyn bookkeeper who rose to become a major force in the publishing business, delights in inventing words. One of his favorites is "bookazine," meaning a soft-cover book marketed like a magazine. Putting that word to work, Shimkin and three other men in 1939 founded his Pocket Books, Inc., the world's most voluminous softback-book producer, with an annual sale of $20 million from its 20% slice of the mass paperback market in the U.S. Another Shimkin word is "biblio-therapeutic," meaning books that help people. With such books, notably Dale...
...Glottologist Shimkin loves his ledgers at least as much as his books, says that he aims to combine "the creative art of publishing with the science of commerce." Last week he completed a deal that, by combining his assets, makes him stronger than ever. Without spending a penny of his own, he arranged to buy out 69-year-old M. Lincoln Schuster, his partner in Simon & Schuster, and merged that company into Pocket Books, Inc. To do this, Shimkin first had S. & S. take $2,000,000 from its operating funds, pay it to Schuster for his half...
...Shimkin thus follows an industry-wide trend toward consolidation between hard and soft publishers. The new enlarged S. & S. will be in a more powerful position to bid for blockbusting authors, whose contracts have been escalating as rapidly as those of prize pro football rookies. In combination, Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books will be better able to assure authors of bonuses for softback reprint rights, while the publishing firm will be able to get those rights without paying fat fees to its hardback competitors...