Word: simone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TRIBE OF WOMEN (248 pp.)-Herveé Bazin-Simon & Schuster...
Yardley has never forgotten the man who dealt out that helping hand. "I have consistently won at poker all my life," says he in The Education of a Poker Player (Simon & Schuster: $3.95). "I do not believe in luck-only in the immutable law of averages." So skilled did Yardley become in the mathematics of that immutable law that he was able to make his prowess pay off in other fields. He organized a U.S. cryptographic bureau during World War I, won a Distinguished Service Medal for breaking the Japanese diplomatic code, and told about it after...
...with mamma's sighs, the sofa bed, and the kitchen-wall stains from "the smoke of a thousand lamb chops," Bill decides to quit college, quit home and go into business for himself. With Bill, venture capital is a question of whom to borrow from. Rich Uncle Simon seems a logical choice ("If you think that money isn't enough to make a person happy, you've just never met my Uncle Simon"), but Uncle Simon refuses with the reproach: "My boy, you want to learn how to shave on my beard...
...SUMMER PLACE (369 pp.)-Sloan Wilson-Simon & Schuster...
Marquand-Type Society. While Wilson signed a more or less routine contract with his publisher Simon & Schuster, his royalties are above the 15% top writers receive, and certain unusual details are involved. The contract was negotiated and held by an intermediary group known as Ridge Press, in which Sloan Wilson is a minority stockholder. Head of Ridge Press is a pal of Wilson's, a onetime magazine (Argosy) executive named Jerry Mason, who acted as editor, designer and bargaining agent for the new book (Simon & Schuster handles printing, advertising and distribution). For Ridge Press, Mason kept full movie...