Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many paths and pageants, moods and means through which man comes before divinity have never been presented so sumptuously as in a big new book out this week: The World's Great Religions, by the Editors of LIFE (TIME Inc.-Simon & Schuster; $13.50). Compiled with the aid of ten writers, 82 experts and the full photographic resources of LIFE, this expansion of the magazine's famed Great Religions series of 1955 takes readers on a guided tour of Hinduism, Buddhism. Chinese philosophy. Islam. Judaism and Christianity...
Since his election to the Illinois state legislature in 1954, Paul Simon, publisher of the weekly Tribune of Troy (pop. 1,260), has "heard newspapers cursed in the cloakroom and fought on the floor." He began to wonder if the "small but vocal group attacking newspapers" reflected widespread dissatisfaction with the press among state representatives and senators. Publisher Simon mailed out questionnaires to legislators of the 48 states. The nonpartisan survey, whose results were published this week in the March issue of Quill magazine, gave politicians a rare opportunity to talk back to the press...
...ever, covers the committee sessions where, as an Ohio lawmaker pointed out. "the dirty work is done" and most legislation is shaped. Several complained that committees are covered only when there is "sensational" news to report. Committee sessions may be closed to the press in 44 states. Yet, Simon notes, "not a single legislator from a state with open meetings suggested they should be secret...
...became president of McCall Corp.. succeeding Marvin Pierce, 63, who was made chairman of the board. Langlie, who served an unprecedented three terms as Washington governor (1940, 1948. 1952) and was defeated last November for the U.S. Senate, was picked for McCall's by California Financier Norton Simon (Ohio Match Co., Hunt Foods, Harbor Plywood), who began buying McCall stock in 1954 and now commands a controlling 35%. New Publisher Langlie was also elected as ninth pro-Simon director on the 17-man board...
...LEGACY (311 pp.)-Sybille Bedford-Simon & Schusfer...