Word: simon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the hearing was devoted to a reading aloud of Winchell's columns by lawyers, plainly a pleasant ordeal for Winchell. In good humor, he volunteered so many comments that his own lawyer cautioned him: "It is better if you would just listen." When Post Lawyer Simon H. Rifkind, onetime federal judge, set forth that Winchell had printed Russian propaganda, Winchell amiably agreed. "Do you remember when Mr. Churchill made his famous speech [in 1946, warning of Russian aggression] at Fulton, Mo.?" asked Rifkind. Answered Winchell: "I panned hell out of it." He admitted having used...
...only the third time in 52 years, trustees of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research met in Manhattan last week to pick a new head for their hospital and laboratories overlooking the East River.* As successor to the late great Dr. Simon Flexner and to Dr. Herbert Spencer Gasser, now retiring at 64 after directing the institute for 18 years, the trustees chose Dr. Detlev Wulf Bronk, 55, president of Johns Hopkins University since 1949. They also streamlined the institute's internal-command setup and elected David Rockefeller, 38, the founder's grandson, as, their own chairman...
...more widely reprinted in newspapers and magazines than any other editorial cartoonist in the U.S. This week, with explanatory notes by "Fitz," the best of his cartoon commentary on the last three decades of U.S. history was published for the first time in a book, As I Saw It (Simon & Schuster...
...followships, donated by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, are granted to "men and women who have demonstrated capacity for original scholarly research and artistic creation...
Unfortunately, only one singer, Robert Simon as the god, had sufficiently distinct diction. The rest of the cast was frequently unintelligible...