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Every weekday morning around 11, a stooped figure with thick glasses, a glistening bald pate and a slight scowl would step off a Broadway bus and trudge to the plain edifice that houses the New York Times. Colleagues on the Times took no offense when kindly Simeon Strunsky failed to return their elevator nods; they all knew that he was nearsighted...
Earnest Socialist. To reach this eminence, Strunsky had to master a language not his own. The Strunskys came to New York's lower East Side from Vitebsk, Russia, when Simeon was seven. At 17, Strunsky won a scholarship to Columbia University, made Phi Beta Kappa, was an earnest Socialist...
...Eliot records, made when the poet visited Cambridge last spring, include "Journey of Magi," "A Song for Simeon," and "Fragment of an Agon...
When Hearst Artist Frederic Remington, cabled from Cuba in 1897 that "there will be no war," William Randolph Hearst cabled back: "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." Last week the aging (84) Lord of San Simeon was out to prove that his hand had not lost its touch. This time it was not Spain but Russia on which Hearst had declared...
August retirements will include Edward Ballantine '07, associate professor of Music; Harold S. Kemp, lecturer on Geography; Simeon B. Wolbach M.D. '03, Shattuck Professor of Pathological Anatomy; Henry W. Holmes '03, professor of Education; and Edward L. Gookin, registrar of the College Library...