Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Picasso for $40. The Communist collection of modern masterworks, all bought before World War I, is the result of simon-pure capitalist acquisitiveness. At the turn of the century, fabulously rich Russian merchants, financiers and landowners took the train for Paris, returned with packing cases loaded not only with impressionist masters but a cross section of the most revolutionary modern art of their...
...with the Rotary Hoe THE ORGANIZATION MAN (429 pp.) -William H. Whyfe Jr.-Simon & Schusfer...
...formula for the situation-comedy series is the electronic version of the old comic strip, with its broadly caricatured characters, simon-simple situations and zam-powie slapstick. Two new series made the point last week. Blondie (NBC, Fri. 8 p.m., E.S.T.) carried its own comic-strip pedigree. Mr. Adams and Eve (CBS, Fri. 9 p.m., E.S.T.) offered husband-and-wife Hollywood stars playing husband-and-wife Hollywood stars. Howard Duff as a vain boob, Ida Lupino as the archetypically wise better-half. Except for wife Lupino's acerbic way with a line, it never got off the comic page...
...hand is that of West Coast Industrialist Norton Simon, 49, who controls Hunt Foods and Ohio Match Co., has major interests in a nationwide string of enterprises ranging from insurance to railroads. Multimillionaire Simon created his empire by buying undervalued companies and building them up. Convinced in 1953 that magazine publishing was being underrated as a result of TV competition, he bought stock in Curtis, McGraw-Hill, Conde Nast and McCall, decided to concentrate on McCall. Simon now controls 35% of the stock, enough to have eight men of his choice put on the 16-man board three months...
...Simon, who hates publicity, has supervised McCall's changes from behind the scenes. Shortly after he bought into the company, he used his influence to get $7,500,000 in long-term loans to finance McCall's growth...