Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Heinrich Simon, 60, musical ex-publisher of the once great liberal paper Frankfurter Zeitung; after being beaten and robbed; in Washington, D.C. Editor Simon in exile gave up politics, turned to music, supported himself by giving piano recitals in England, went to Palestine to become cofounder with Arturo Toscanini of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, came in 1939 to the U.S. He never, from 1934 to the day of his death, uttered the word "Germany...
...last year this plan was a storm center in Parliament. Sir Robert Kindersley called it a barefaced bribe, said it smelled of totalitarianism. Laborites called it a disguised wage cut. Sir John Simon, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that the patriotic motive was enough to make people save. But time proved him wrong. The Exchequer has partially adopted compulsory savings. Next autumn automatic wage deferments (on a complex sliding scale) will begin in Britain...
Recommendations for the awards are made by a committee consisting of Frank B. Jewett, of New York City, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, chairman; Simon Flexner, of New York City, former director of the Laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; and Dr. James Phinney Baxter III, president of Williams College...
...POCKETFUL OF CLUES-James R. Langham-Simon & Schuster ($2). Tough Detective Sammy Abbott, who has a morbid appetite for peanut butter on his ice cream, sees a ragamuffin giving the hotfoot to a park-bench sleeper. The sleeper does not twitch. In fact underneath his newspaper he has no head at all. A story of civic corruption in Santa Monica, with mayor dead and crooked politicians confounded...
THIS IS LONDON-Edward R. Murrow -Simon & Schuster ($2). Selections from the London broadcasts of CBS's famed radio correspondent...