Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TREASURY OF THE WORLD'S GREAT LETTERS-Edited by M. Lincoln Schuster-Simon & Schuster...
HAROLD T. SIMON Brooklyn...
...York's Hell Gate, between The Bronx and Queens, lies a British frigate wrecked about 1780 with a reputed $4,800,000 in gold aboard. Among its hunters: Simon Lake, inventor of the submarine...
...Howe is a cultured, loquacious, birdlike Bostonian with a famous father (Pulitzer Prize Biographer Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe), a shrewd editorial sense, a mercurial mind. For twelve years he applied it to foreign affairs for The Living Age; for the last five it has glided around the offices of Simon & Schuster. For years Editor Howe was the No. 1 sniffer-out of British influence and propaganda in the U. S. His England Expects Every American To Do His Duty (1937) was hailed and reprinted in the Anglophobe Hearst press; his Blood Is Cheaper Than Water (1939) glibly tracked...
...News and how to Understand it (Simon & Schuster; $2) is subheaded In spite of the newspapers, In spite of the magazines, In spite of the radio. A practitioner in two of these fields (he is news commentator for WQXR), Howe is critical of all three. Refreshingly fair and accurate (especially in comparison with muckraking books like George Seldes' Lords of the Press), Howe's book is an amusing, gossipy chat about the men and corporations that bring the news to America: their biases, their qualities, their wives. His opinions...