Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frisky seal; cocky bear cubs attack a one-ton walrus and drive him from his perch; a wolverine, nastiest of all far northern beasts, shrugs off the dive-bomb attacks of an osprey to climb a tall tree and devour a fledgling. Most impressive scene of all: Photographer James Simon found a colony of lemmings (mouselike rodents that breed prolifically) swarming in panic because of famine, filmed them as they scurried by the millions over a cliff into...
COCKTAIL TIME (2 1 9 pp.)- P. G. Wodehouse-Simon & Schusfer...
...just love those Americans," bubbled Simon Ward, the Daily Sketch's "Inside Information" columnist. "Now they're fitting a device to propellers of their planes to produce the same magic whine of Britain's turboprop engines. The theory is that if the 'jet noise' attracts even one passenger per plane, it's paid for itself...
STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET, by Evan Hunter (375 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $4.50). Nature is easily kept in check by powered lawn mowers in suburban Pinecrest Manor, an hour from Broadway, but human nature creates a thick underbrush of sin and suffering. With the dull Cape Cods, the boring neighbors, the endless trivia of gossip, there is not much to turn to for excitement. Architect Larry Cole, who loves his wife and two youngsters after eight years of faultless married life, turns to Margaret Gault, a beautiful blonde whose husband spends a lot of time in an aircraft factory...
...ADIEUX (244 pp.) -François-Regis Basflde -Simon & Schuster...