Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advice on baby-care one day last summer when Gardner Cowles Jr. (Harvard 1925), son of the paper's owner, called him in. Young Editor Cowles was looking through a copy of The First World War, a photographic history edited by Laurence Stallings and just published by Simon & Schuster (TIME, July 31). It showed recruits in camp, soldiers in battle, soldiers wounded, maimed, dead; crowds at home, prisoners being executed, troop ships sinking. Gardner Cowles, who had been too young to go to War, was awestruck. Said he: "What would you think of this as a Sunday feature?" Manager...
...Martin went to Manhattan, persuaded Simon & Schuster to sell him newspaper rights to the 513 pictures. The Register & Tribune started it at home. Circulation zoomed while book sales held up strong. Two months later Salesman Martin sold the Detroit News; next, the Boston Globe. The three papers combined reported an 80,000 increase in circulation, held it after the series ended. The Washington Star, Baltimore Sun, and the Philadelphia Bulletin fell into line. William Randolph Hearst began to feel the pinch, quickly ordered the syndicate series for all his papers in the 13 cities still open. Scripps-Howard rushed...
...spoken before the Austrian riots wrote finis to Great Britain's attempts at reaching immediate disarmament agreements. Rendered particularly negative was a meeting of Disarmament Conference officials called at London by Arthur Henderson. And still unanswered by Berlin and Paris were the latest disarmament proposals of Sir John Simon. So the British Cabinet turned its attention to Austria, sure that the riots would lead to Fascism under Italian influence, then to Naziism under militaristic Germany...
...South America went to United Feature Syndicate Inc., whose Syrian-Sheik General Manager Monte Bourjaily outbid King Features, Bell Syndicate, NANA, NEA. United Features promptly resold The Life of Our Lord to enough U. S. newspapers to avoid, giving first publication to a magazine. Book rights went to Simon & Schuster. The Life of Our Lord will start to appear in about 300 U. S. newspapers on March 5, continue in 13 installments of a little more than 1,000 words each. Had he published The Life of Our Lord in 1849, Charles Dickens would have received no such handsome price...
...Kirkland ushers will be B. P. Millar '35, J. E. Barnett 4G, J. P. Chandler '34, J. F. Donnelly, Jr. '35, J. F. Ducey '36, W. C. Scott '34, R. Simon '35, and M. Wittenberg '36. Decorations have been designed by Robert Gardener-Medwin...