Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exception to the rule that books about movies are even duller than movies about books is A Pictorial History of the Movies (Simon & Schuster; $3.95). Its 700-odd movie stills have been assembled by Bryant Hale and Marcelene Peterson, and more conspicuously credited to Composer-Critic Deems Taylor. His touch is evident in the captions, which outline the history of U.S. films from the scandalous The Widow Jones of 1896 to Mrs. Miniver. By turns touching, noble, hilarious, incredible, the pictures in this book have the endearing dignity and fascination of a gigantic family album. Reproduced on this page, reading...
...Government leaders and dragged them off to prison. Pro-U.S. President Enrique Peñaranda was later exiled to Chile. His 80-year-old mother died of fright. Two of Bolivia's three great tin barons, Mauricio Hochschild and Carlos Victor Aramayo, went into hiding. The greatest, Simon I. Patino, was safe in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, where he refused to answer the telephone...
...project will be a memorial to Timesman Adolph Simon Ochs. Said Princeton President Harold Willis Dodds last week: "When Jefferson said, 'Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe,' he voiced a belief that today has greater meaning. . . . This . . . was also the lifelong conviction of the great journalist . . . Adolph S. Ochs, [who] also advanced the idea of a responsible press. It is . . . appropriate that a university dedicated to free inquiry, aided by a free and responsible newspaper, should present . . . the complete writings of the man who swore 'eternal hostility against every...
VICTORIA GRANDOLET-Henry Bellamann-Simon & Schuster...
...question a particular base-hit value. Examples: What kind of a crown did the soldiers place on Jesus? The answer (thorns) is good for one base. What relation was Annas to Caiaphas? rates a home run if answered: father-in-law. There are sacrifice flies (Give another name for Simon. Answer: Peter), and bunts (Who betrayed Jesus? Answer: Judas). The rules had to be changed when one smart boy pitcher started throwing sacrifice questions for every third...