Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood still was making hopeful gestures toward Latin America last week. In production were half a dozen films with Latin backgrounds, including M. G. M.'s The Life of Simon Bolivar with Robert Taylor, 20th Century-Fox's remake of Blood and Sand with Tyrone Power, Paramount's Mexican story, Rurales. In Washington, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics, conferred with John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, who announced a new promotion drive for U. S. pictures in Latin America, "based solely on the presentation of entertainment films...
OWEN GLENDOWER - John Cowper Powys-Simon & Schuster...
...CASE OF THE SOLID KEY-Anthony Boucher-Simon & Schuster ($2). Evil deeds, some homicidal, in a Little Theatre group in Hollywood. Fergus O'Breen is a fairly amusing private detective, well up on his sodium fluoride. Quick and slick...
...Public Ledger was a famed old morning paper when Curtis bought it from the late Adolph Simon Ochs (publisher of the New York Times) in 1913. He paid $2,000,000, proceeded to spend hundreds of thousands more for new equipment. To keep the Ledger presses busy he brought out an evening edition in 1914. He acquired Philadelphia's evening Telegraph, Press, North American, merged them all with the Public Ledger. In 1924 he bought the New York evening Post. In 1930 he reputedly paid $15.000,000 for the Philadelphia Inquirer, kept it going as a competitor...
...firsts: first woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins, first woman to teach there, first woman member of the Rockefeller Institute, first woman member of the National Academy of Sciences. She is famed for her discovery of the origin and processes of the lymphatic system, her studies in tuberculosis. Dr. Simon Flexner, former head of the Rockefeller Institute once called her "the greatest living woman scientist and one of the foremost scientists of all time...