Word: simon
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Sirs: "Citizen Simon's chief service to the Empire since the War was rendered during Britain's General Strike. . . ." (TIME, March 21.) Why not Subject Simon? I have harbored the belief for many years that an Englishman was a subject-not a citizen. Which wins? F. S. WINCHESTER SR. Snow Hill, Md. Sir John Simon is both citizen & subject. "Subject" denotes personal allegiance, properly is applied to citizens of monarchical or conquering states. "Citizen," more democratic, implies rights as well as duties.-ED. Doyle's Favorite Sirs...
There are a few companies in which the president is better known than the chairman. Doubtless more people could name Colby Mitchell Chester Jr., as president of General Foods Corp. than could name Edward F. Hutton as chairman, despite the latter's fame as a broker. Simon Guggenheim, president of American Smelting & Refining, is more famed than Chairman Francis Herbert Brownell. General Motors' President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. is far more in the public eye than Lammot du Pont, chairman...
Washington & Jefferson College (Washington, Pa.) inaugurated a new president ast week. Year ago the students struck, announced emphatically that they did not like the policies (in regard to campus garb and athletics) of President Simon Strousse Baker (TIME, March 30). Small, oldish President Baker resigned. His successor pleased nearly everyone. Rev. Dr. Ralph Cooper Hutchison is tall, dark, one of the youngest college presidents (34) in the U. S. Born in Colorado, he went to Lafayette College (1918), spent seven months in naval aviation, went to Haryard, Pennsylvania, Princeton Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1922. worked for the Presbyterian...
...GLASTONBURY ROMANCE-John Cowper Powys-Simon & Schuster ($3.75). In spite of the considerable success of his two-volume novel Wolf Solent, in spite of Critic H. L. Mencken's dictum that no two-volume novel ever failed, Author Powys confines the 1,174 pages of his latest fanciful vignette within the covers of a single book. Hard on the reader's wrist, its insistent author's perverse philosophizing is liable to be hard on many a reader's patience too. "Folks 'ud rayther brew their own broth theyselves then...
...SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF HUMAN STUPIDITY-Walter B. Pitkin-Simon & Schuster...