Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DAUGHTER - Bessie Breuer - Simon & Schuster ($2.50). In Memory of Love Author Breuer wrote brashly but not brilliantly about a love affair from the male viewpoint. This time, no less candidly but with more social intent, she describes the painful affair (shared by her cynical mother) of an inhibited, literary virgin at a Florida winter resort...
MEMORY OF YOUTH-Vilhelm Moberg -Simon & Schuster ($2.50). A sturdier Swedish Little Man, What Now? about a successful Stockholm magazine editor, turned sour on city life, who muses for 322 of the novel's 405 pages on his frustrated but retrospectively happy peasant youth...
...close second on Broadway. Best songs at present: From Alpha to Omega, a catalogue of compliments in the style of You're the Top; You Never Know, in the usual sultry, husky Holmanner. Best revue bit: Actress Velez skipping brightly about as Katharine Hepburn, Gloria Swanson, Simone Simon, Shirley Temple in turn...
Each year the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation selects a few Americans considered likely to add to the "scholarly and artistic power" of the U. S., pays their living expenses so they may work at what pleases them. This week the Foundation granted $135,000 to 58 men & women chosen from 1,000 applicants. Some of the 1938 Guggenheim fellows...
...PRAIRIE GROVE-Donald Culross Peattie-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Lush essay on an island grove of the Illinois prairie, with informative flash backs on its prehistoric bird & animal life, less original glimpses of its pioneer days...