Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such complex gibberish annoys Surgeon Moses Benmosché of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. Surgeon Benmosché believes that patients have more guts when they are told more about them. This week Dr. Benmosché published the first popular primer of surgery: A Surgeon Explains to the Layman (Simon & Schuster; $3). His book is chock-full of bold diagrams, simple descriptions of operations. Dr. Benmosché's bookside manner is calm and reassuring, should serve as a tonic for healthy-minded patients. Sample information...
...France of 1848 they had good reason to. The earlier socialists, Saint-Simon, Robert Owen, Fourier, were really trying to create a more Christian life. With their socialist communities, workshops and phalansteries, they hoped to convert the world by good example. Most of the good examples came to life in the U. S., usually died a quick death, sometimes lingered like the Oneida Community or the Fourierist phalanstery near Red Bank, N. J. There the remnants of transcendental Brook Farm migrated. There Author Alexander Woollcott was born...
...wonderful attraction for money had Abraham Flexner. For 30 years the fattest moneybags in the U. S. opened to his touch. He loosened up no mean part of the Rockefeller, Carnegie, Eastman and Morgan fortunes, channeled them into U. S. education. Last week, in his autobiography, I Remember (Simon & Schuster; $3.75), billiard-bald, wizened Dr. Flexner, 73, explained...
...late, great Adolph Simon Ochs started at 15 as a printer's devil on a Knoxville paper, worked for a while on Watterson's Courier-Journal, acquired the Chattanooga Times in 1878 (when he was 20) with $250 of borrowed capital. In Chattanooga, Publisher Ochs amassed the fortune with which he bought the New York Times 18 years later...
...GOOSE IS COOKED-Emmett Hogarth-Simon & Schuster ($2). Extravaganza in an electrical engineer's laboratory: the first corpse is only charred around the wrists; the second "looks like Al Jolson singing 'Mammy.' " The solution is by Marty Cohen, a law-school cop who knows no watts but is a hard, bright New Yorker going places...