Word: simon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only One Outrage. As for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, said its Secretary Henry Allen Moe, "the most outrageous mistake of all" was a 1935 grant to Scenarist Alvah Bessie, who later became one of the Hollywood Ten jailed for contempt of Congress. But except for Bessie and two or three others, said Moe, the foundation had done well: like its sister organizations, it had never knowingly subsidized a subversive, and it never would...
Starting at the turn of the century, when the world developed a ravenous tin appetite (for food containers, automobile bearings, welding), Simon I. Patiño. a cholo (half-Indian) from Cochabamba, parlayed an abandoned Bolivian tin mine into a fortune estimated at a cool $1 billion. His annual income used to surpass the government's. He formed a world cartel, bought heavily into Malayan tin, and lived abroad like an emperor, marrying his son Antenor to a niece of Spain's Alfonso XIII, his daughters to a French count and a Spanish grandee of such exalted lineage...
GERALD McBOING BOING (25 pp.)-United Productions of America-Simon & Schuster ($1). The little boy with the built-in sound track for a voice brings his success story from the motion-picture cartoon to the printed page...
...Enlightenment-the mid-century in U.S. history may go down as the Age of Tolerance, in the sense that strong feelings, about religion at least, are in bad taste. A good text for such an age is a book published this week called This I Believe (Simon & Schuster; $3). Written for CBS Newscaster Edward R. Murrow, This I Believe is a series of doggedly non-controversial statements by representative Americans about the faiths they live...
...galleries. There, the work of more objective artists was on exhibit, and there seemed to be more of it than last year. Among the best: a compassionate scene of two old Bowery bums. Under the El, by Manhattan's Jack Levine; a primitive allegory, Fishers, Simon and Peter, by Manhattan's C. Murray Foster; a biting satire, Tension, by St. Louis' Siegfried Reinhardt, which showed a straining rooster, a bird hanging by its neck, a boy stretching a string, and a man twisting the boy's head...