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While Harold Robbins (The Carpetbaggers) was writing The Adventurers, Leon Shimkin, his publisher, took a peek at a half-finished page and asked what happened next. "I don't know," replied Robbins. "The damned typewriter broke. I'm waiting for a guy to fix it." Fixing the typewriter was Robbins' second mistake; the first was writing the book...
...Manhattan, Carnegie discovered that what his students really wanted to learn was how to make a good impression on their bosses and friends. His institute boomed into a quasi religion whose 450,000 disciples were certain that he had pointed the way to success. In 1935, Publisher Leon Shimkin of Manhattan's Simon & Schuster persuaded Carnegie to collect his lectures. The result, How to Win Friends, sold 5,000,000 copies in the English editions, was translated into 31 languages (including a recent Burmese version by Prime Minister U Nu). Sample Carnegie maxims: i) let the other man feel...
...gains do not mean that Russia has greatly increased its capital equipment. Dr. Demitri Shimkin, who served on the U.S. Army's General Staff during the war, and is now with Harvard's Russian Research Center, has concluded from a careful study of postwar Russian production figures that the Russians achieved much of their gains by hard use of their old capital equipment. Shimkin's conclusion seems to indicate that after World War II the Russians decided to go on turning out all the war material they could at top speed-rather than to emphasize capital goods...
This week's schedule includes a panel discussion at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday on WEEI: "Is There Still a Chance to Agree with Russia on Atomic Control?" with Demitri B. Shimkin and Alex Inkeles, research associates at the Russian Research Center, and David F. Cavers, professor of Law. At 10 p.m. Tuesday on WCOP Dr. Edwin B. Dunphy, Henry Willard Williams Professor of Ophthalmology, lectures on eye diseases...
This week's schedule includes a panel discussion at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday on WEEI: "Is There Still a Chance to Agree with Russia on Atomic Control?" with Domitrl B. Shimkin and Alex Inkeles, research associates at the Russian Research Center, and David F. Cavers, professor of Law. At 10 p.m. Tuesday on WCOP Dr. Edwin B. Dunphy, Henry Willard Williams Professor of Ophthalmology, lectures on eye discuses...