Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FOWLERS END (337 pp.)-Gerald Kersh -Simon & Schuster...
...banker, flushed deeply, swallowed hard, spun the saddest yarn of all. With Joseph McEvoy, the nephew of Beck's wife, and one other associate, Hedlund established the National Mortgage Co., thanks partly to the $35,000 contribution from Uncle Dave to McEvoy. Then Hedlund, Beck and Teamster Lawyer Simon Wampold organized an outfit called the Investment Co., which drew brokerage commissions on Teamster money invested by Beck. Through the mortgage company, Beck put a tidy $9,000,000 in Teamster funds into mortgages, and through this company, Beck's family profited handsomely...
...rambunctious style. A Neanderthal Republican whose father was Teddy Roosevelt's secretary, Oyster Bay-born Bill Loeb, 51, insists that, the G.O.P. is riddled with Communists, in 1952 was one of the few of any party to endorse the late Bertie McCormick's proposal for a simon-pure "American Party." Spry, restless Loeb brags that the Union Leader will print any letter it receives, pointed out a recent Page One example from a student: "Mr. Loeb, you are a goddamn reactionary...
...KTTV, Lyricist Ray Gilbert winced to hear his own words replaced by others: "You're gonna love this coffee, man oh man ..." Last week Gilbert sued for $300,000 from the sponsor (Hills Brothers Coffee), the ad agency (N. W. Ayer), and his own music publisher (George Simon), who explained that he had sold the singing-commercial rights to the music -minus the lyrics-for $500. Gilbert charged that the jingle had injured his reputation "by reducing him in the eyes of the music profession, publishers and the public to the level of a jingle writer...
Like many another U.S. newspaper, the nation's most prestigious daily has long been a family paper. In 1917 Arthur Hays Sulzberger married Iphigene Ochs. only daughter of Adolph Simon Ochs, turned down his father's cotton business, went to work for the New York Times; in 1935 he succeeded the late great Adolph Ochs as president and publisher of the Times. Last week, in the same pattern, the tradition moved into another generation. Named the new president of the Times, succeeding Arthur Hays Sulzberger, was Orvil E. Dryfoos, 44, who married Sulzberger's daughter Marian...