Word: simon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oilman Bill Simon and his wife Ophelia were delighted. Like a few other families in Gushing, Okla. (pop. 8,000), they had paid the passage of a D.P. couple, and taken them into their home to work. The Simons' couple, Jackin and Prowska Saij, worked hard as gardener & cook, and they never had to be told a second time how to use the automatic household gadgets. They knew only a few words of English, but the Simons had given the couple a radio to help them learn the language...
Prowska began weeping at her work. Her only reply to Mrs. Simon's anxious questions in sign-language was: "Jack kaput, Prowska kaput" and the quick gesture of a finger drawn across her throat. From time to time Prowska's hands became paralyzed. Said the doctor: "There is nothing physically wrong with her, but she is scared...
...tried to keep it, but after eight years I lost it. If you can't trust your own children you can't trust strangers. My hope is gone like the cattle that go over the hill and never come back." One night last week, Bill and Ophelia Simon began to pack blankets and Thermoses for a fishing trip. Jackin and Prowska became certain that the Simons were leaving to escape the secret police. Next morning, Prowska woke to find her husband gone. She stumbled into the garage and found his body, swinging from the rafters by the rope...
Last week Reader Simon unwrapped a plan to give other readers more for their money. Five new books on the S. & S. spring list will be published in the regular $2.75 to $3.50 clothbound editions, and simultaneously in a far bigger edition of paperbound copies to sell for $1. The firm's reasoning: mass sales of cheaper books, by creating word-of-mouth advertising, will help sell the costlier copies...
...Simon & Schuster tried $1 editions back in the Depression, but the public "thought that anything that cheap must not be any good," says Simon. But in 1943 Wendell Willkie's One World, published simultaneously in cheap and higher-priced editions, sold so phenomenally (1,400,000) that S. & S. decided to try further experiments in combined editions. These worked so well that S. & S. is willing to risk $100,000 on its new venture, and if it proves out, will broaden it over more of their list. "The bookseller," says Dick Simon, "will no longer have to apologize...