Word: simon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Compulsive Telephones The urgent, flexible world of Norton Simon revolves around a seven-day work week during which he spends some days in his study at home, others alone in an isolated office that he keeps on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard, still others at an office in his Fullerton head quarters, a glass, stone and aluminum building designed for Hunt by Architect William Pereira. On weekends he and his wife frequently move north to a sprawling house by the Pacific Ocean at Lido Isle, and at least one week a month Simon travels to the East Coast to attend board...
...Simon's workday is so individual and changeable that he has no routine in the usual sense. He rises between 6 and 7 a.m. in his house in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles, begins the day's first round of telephone calls over a leisurely breakfast of tea, toast and fruit. For Simon, the telephone is a compulsive device: he has four unlisted telephones at home, three more in his blue-carpeted office at Fullerton...
...that all? Is that all?" In his office he swivels constantly like a metronome while he scribbles short answers to memos, receives visitors or pores over the pieces from newspapers and magazines that are clipped for him by Stella Russell, by his secretary, and by his Negro houseboy who, Simon insists, has a nose for news. Eternally restless, he constantly tweaks his ears, rubs his eyes, pulls at his neck, scratches his ankle, and chews constantly on a phenomenal number of Italian caramels that somehow do not seem to increase his steady weight of 180 Ibs. And, of course...
...PARIS BURNING? by Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre. 376 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...WASHING OF THE SPEARS by Donald R. Morris. 655 pages. Simon & Schuster...