Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hell with you and your money!" is what St. Peter said to Simon the magician when he offered to pay the Apostles for the gift of conferring the Holy Spirit. This, at least, is the rendering that a new translation of the New Testament gives to the words the King James version translates as "Thy Money perish with thee" (Acts 8:20). See RELIGION, Colloquial Scripture...
...Fury) either almost in the can or getting ready for the cameras. When there are not enough books to his liking on the market, Wald invents some. For years he saved clippings on the subject of young college-grad career girls in the big city, finally talked to Simon and Schuster's late editor. Jack Goodman, who passed the tip on to a promising young writer (and Radcliffe graduate) named Rona Jaffe. Result: The Best of Everything, Author Jaffe's bestseller (TIME, Sept. 15), which Wald duly bought...
...WORLD OF STRANGERS (312 pp.)- Nadine Gordimer-Simon & Schuster...
...Funds. Stocky, handsome Tex Thornton, who was born in Knox County, Texas and graduated from Texas Technological College ('37), got a backhanded boost toward success from eccentric, erratic Howard Hughes. Thornton quit Hughes Aircraft in the same big blowup of Hughesmen (TIME, Oct. 5, 1953) that sent Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge off to start their own famed Ramo-Wooldridge Corp. With Thornton went Roy L. Ash, Hughes Aircraft's assistant controller and now Litton...
...BEST OF EVERYTHING (437 pp.)- Rona Jaffe-Simon & Schuster...