Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LIGHTS AROUND THE SHORE-Jerome Weldman-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Youthful, attractive Aunt Fini had immigrated to New York from Hungary, had worked industriously for six years, hoarding her money, confiding no secrets. When she went back to Europe in the summer of 1939 she was supposed to be going to see her old parents. But Peter, the 15-year-old American nephew who accompanied her, was bewildered by her brusque, preoccupied behavior, soon found there was a man in the story, and learned enough of life to leave adolescence behind him forever. Touching as a study of a growing youth...
...sure-fire scene describes a latrine orderly's dream, in which a fairy, using a plumber's plunger as a wand, summons Uncle Tom, Simon Legree and others from the privy. Sample gag: says a sniffing sergeant to a private, "Have you taken a bath lately?" Says the private, "Why, is one missing...
...cast are Mary D. Savage, Annie Lindsie, Pat Jardinier, Tamara Polevaya, Gretchon Dambach, Sally Chamberlain, Catherine Lewis, Gloria Rockwood, Anne Dougherty for Radcliffe and Robert Grin and Janos Simon for Harvard...
Wendell Willkie's One World (Simon and Schuster, $1 and $2) got off last week to the fastest start of any book in the memory of U.S. booksellers. It easily outstripped Gone With the Wind, How to Win Friends and Influence People and Your Income Tax. Within eight days, there were half a million copies in print, breaking all records...
...auctioned for $100,000 worth of war bonds to Mr. Julius Klorfein, who also bought Jack Benny's violin for $1,000,000 in bonds (TIME, March 8). Rival publishers grudgingly guessed that the book might sell 5,000,000 copies. (Record-breaker G.W.T.W. sold 3,000,000.) Simon and Schuster feared paper problems after the first...