Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis embarked on his fight-a-month campaign last fall, Broadway wags dubbed his opponents the Bum-of-the-Month Club. Last week, in Detroit's Olympia Stadium, Louis took on his pushover for March: 255-lb., 26-year-old Abe Simon of Richmond Hill, Long Island...
...Simon, oversized son of a Jewish butter-&-egg salesman, was no more worthy a challenger than Gus Dorazio, Red Burman, Al McCoy or the half-dozen other second-raters who have served as punching bags for the Champ. Patterned on the lines of Primo Camera, Giant Simon, a stand-up boxer (6 ft. 4 in.), had nothing up his forearm but the longest reach (83 in.) and the largest mitts (14½ in.) in the fight game...
...Ameche prefers Carmen Miranda, Pan-American attraction is adequately proved. That Night in Rio should convince Latins that the yanquis are trying to be good albeit slightly dreamy and gushing, neighbors. If they want other evidence, they can look forward to Robert Taylor in The Life of Simon Bolivar, Tyrone Power in Blood and Sand and R. K. O.'s They Met in Argentina, coming Hollywood productions inspired by Mr. Whitney's non-compulsory suggestions...
...explain to its agents what the complicated Revenue Act of 1940 was all about, the U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue bought from publishers Simon & Schuster 300 copies of J. K. Lasser's book: Your Income Tax - How to Keep It Down...
Excellently drawn, in fresh, lively colors, intelligently captioned, True Comics offered: the colorful stories of Winston Churchill, "World Hero No.1";-George Rogers Clark, potent Revolutionary War hero and frontier fighter; David Bushnell, ingenious Yankee inventor of the first submarine in the Revolutionary War; Simon Bolivar, great South American liberator, whose hero was George Washington. Other brightly colored features include a series on the world's warplanes in action, Lowell Thomas' "greatest adventure," the story of the original Greek Marathon run. Confident first edition was 300,000 copies...