Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edgar McCarthy was being urged by publishers Simon & Schuster to write a life of Charlie Bergen-of whom he is said to be more than a little jealous...
...their personal refuge, and as the only community of which they could be full-fledged members. The Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Jewish problems, which arrived in Cairo last week, had found that 600,000 out of 750,000 Jews in European D.P. camps were, in Judge Simon H. Rifkind's phrase, "unrepentant Zionists," despite the struggle and the hardship awaiting them in Palestine...
STARLING OF THE WHITE HOUSE-as told to Thomas Sugrue by Colonel Edmund W. Starling-Simon & Schuster...
...that amount, $3,375," Miss Rice informed me. "The other half goes to my publisher, who, like all first-edition publishers today, takes 50% of all authors' reprint royalties. And, of course, I pay 10% to my agent, thereby netting 40% for myself." Miss Lee Wright, editor of Simon & Schuster's Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Miss Rice's first-edition publishers, confirmed this emphatically over the telephone tonight. "Craig has just the same sort of contract as any other writer," said Miss Wright. "We take 50% of her reprint royalties...
Norman Corwin, 35, radio's wonder-boy writer-producer, this week took a vicious bite at the hand that feeds and pets him. In a new book, While You Were Gone (Simon & Schuster; $3.50), Scripter Corwin charged radio with "dreadful mediocrity. . . . The average sponsor and agency ... borrow, imitate, plagiarize, and perpetuate formulas . . . and become fast slaves to ratings. Originality and experimentation are . . . firmly rejected. I believe . . . radio has a higher destiny than merely to sell soup and soap...