Word: simone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a man is George T. Simon, 55, executive director of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. At Harvard in the early 1930s, Simon was so excited by the Casa Loma Orchestra's flashy beat that he used it as the style for his own college band; later he became a drummer for Glenn Miller, a writer and editor for the old Metronome magazine, and a producer for records, radio and TV. Now, drawing heavily on his Metronome files, he has packed all he knows about the peak of swing (1935-46) into an encyclopedic volume...
Jealous Rim Shots. Best of them all, says Simon, was Tommy Dorsey's orchestra. Others may have been more creative, hard-driving or distinctive, but, all around, Dorsey's band "could do more things better than any other." At one time or another, it featured such talents as Drummer Buddy Rich and Trumpeter Bunny Berigan, Singers Frank Sinatra and Jo Stafford, Arrangers Paul Weston and Sy Oliver-and, always, the warm, silken trombone of T.D. himself, from whom Sinatra learned most of what he knows about breathing and phrasing...
Tony Rome is the best thing Frank Sinatra has ruined since Mia Farrow. As in her case, though, it isn't all Sinatra's doing. Richard Conte, Jill St. John, Simon Oakland and Gena Rowlands, among the cast, plus screenwriter Richard Breen and director Gordon Douglas, have given Rome their...
Restless Entrepreneur Norton Simon has yet to find the all-purpose chief executive for Hunt Foods & Industries. Recently, Simon replaced President Francis Fabian, 52, an operations expert who served him for about two years. Into the gap went William E. McKenna, 48, a smooth-talking senior vice president from Litton Industries with an accounting background and a Harvard Business School degree. Simon makes no bones about the reason for the change: he wants to expand his empire of subsidiaries and affiliates, which already includes McCall Corp., Hunt-Wesson Foods, Inc., Knox Glass Inc., Canada Dry Corp. and Crucible Steel Corp...
Among the takeover possibilities that are said to interest Simon is Swift & Co., which recently announced an executive change of its own. President Robert Reneker, 55, becomes sole chief executive on Dec. 1 when Board Chairman Porter M. Jarvis retires, taking his title with him. Reneker made his reputation in sales and is the first man to reach the top spot without a solid grounding in meat operations-which suggests that the company, having branched into such nonfood items as chemicals and insurance, plans further diversification. Admittedly curious about rumors of Simon's interest in his company, Reneker claims...