Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Simone Simon, caught in the Manhattan housing squeeze, fought eviction from her $240-a-month sublet apartment. Her landlord, caught in the same squeeze, wanted to get back in fast, before his wife bore the baby she expected soon. "I would be happy to leave if I could find somewhere to go," cried the baby-faced cinemactress (All That Money Can Buy-). The OP A gave itself a week to decide...
That would leave Sidney Wooderson's 4:04.2 as the mark for the world's milers to shoot at. It would also leave U.S. indoor track promoters, who had hoped to offer their customers a winter fare of Hagg and Andersson, facing an immediately bleak future. One Simon-pure Swede who might help to brighten the picture: Lennart Strand, a newcomer who has beaten both Hagg and Andersson in recent months-apparently on an empty stomach...
Hugh Dalton, Labor's shy new Chancellor of the Exchequer, had quite an audience. Present in the House of Commons were three distinguished predecessors: Winston Churchill, Sir John Anderson, Viscount Simon. Ex-cabbies and miners among the new Labor Members, many of them sitting on the floor of the overcrowded House, critically eyed their man. From the packed gallery peered the Bank of England's Governor Lord Catto. To lords and cabbies, Hugh Dalton was about to open the new Socialist Government's first budget...
DAYS AND NIGHTS-Konsfanfine Simonov-Simon &Schuster ($2.75). One of the most ubiquitous young writers of the Russian war was 30-year old Konstantine Simonov. A crack Soviet war correspondent who generally turned up in the thickest fighting from Odessa to Leningrad, Reporter Simonov is also a successful playwright, poet, short-story writer, novelist. Days and Nights, his novel of the 1942 defense of Stalingrad, is more effective than most contemporary Soviet fiction because the Communist drum-beating is more muffled...
...Dramatic Art; a drama school rivaling Yale's and Carnegie Tech's; an outstanding university press; and Howard Odum's famed Institute for Research in Social Science. Not all his battles have been victories, A conspicuous defeat: his fight to make U.S. college football a simon-pure amateur game...