Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doren Stern, Manhattan publisher, was noted by The Saturday Review of Literature's Columnist Bennett Cerf for his quick response to a suggestion that Armed Services Editions (of which he is an editor) print The Ten Commandments. Mulled Stern, who once worked for best-selling literary treasurers Simon & Schuster: "How about using only five of them and calling it A Treasury of the World's Best Commandments...
HOME SWEET HOMICIDE- Craig Rice- Simon & Schuster ($2). The three active children of mystery-writing Marian Carstairs were practically in at the death when murder came next door, and in their own inimitable fashion pointed out the solution to a brace of long-suffering detectives. You may forget the murder while you laugh at the kids, but from all angles it's about the best bet of the year...
...Houston, the Episcopal Diocese of Texas set aside $10,000 to help chaplains who return to that diocese when the war ends. The eleven Texas parsons now serving had to resign their parishes because replacements would not accept parishes on a "duration" basis. Said Bishop Clinton Simon Quin: "We are going to take care of every returning rector. We will get them a job within the Diocese. Maybe it will be a church with but 15 or 20 members, where pay is small. The fund set aside will be used to make up the difference in that...
...lecturing there, once a week, on "Philosophies in Practice.") Concluding that he could say nothing absolute about the nature of truth, but that he might be interesting on the subject of what men have thought it to be, he has just finished a history of philosophy for Simon & Schuster. A believer in scientific method as the most promising approach to truth, he is now writing a book (he thinks it is about his 30th) to prove his never-ending case. He is living in Princeton, N.J., in the cozy, old-fashioned Peacock Inn, with his good-looking young Countess...
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