Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...KINGDOMS OF EARTH (249 pp.)-Hoke Norrls-Simon & Schuster...
...Confirmed, by 64-19 (4 Republicans, 15 Southern Democrats), Ike's year-old nomination of Solicitor-General Simon E. Sobeloff (TIME, July 9) to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. In a last-ditch action, Southerners charged in eight hours of debate that Sobeloff, who argued the Federal Government's position on ways to implement school desegregation, would be "offensive" to the Maryland-to-South Carolina belt comprising the Fourth Circuit. At week's end, Sobeloff was sworn in as a federal judge...
...Senate, to take final action on the President's long-stalled nomination of Solicitor General Simon E. Sobeloff to the Fourth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals. The nomination, first submitted last July, had been stuck in the Judiciary Committee by determined Southern opposition to Sobeloff because of his "unsympathetic" racial views (before the Supreme Court he argued the Government's 1955 case on implementing the school desegregation decision). The breakthrough, after a month-long filibuster by South Carolina's Olin D. Johnston, came in an 8-2 committee vote to report the nomination...
...tall crucifix and eight urns containing the ashes of Colombian soldiers who fought in the Korean war and in the country's own backlands guerrilla war. Rojas then read off a solemn oath, swearing the servicemen, in the name of Jesus Christ and in the memory of Simon Bolivar, to "fight for the domination of the Third Force until Colombians lay down their political hatreds before the national banner." They took the oath. Next afternoon, at Bogotá's Campin stadium, Rojas likewise swore in a throng of youth, labor, farm and women's groups...
...typical successful TV comic is either Irish or Jewish, earns more money than the President of the U.S., and is likely to suffer from egomania, insomnia and, especially, vertigo-i.e., a morbid fear of falling from his high Nielsen rating. In a new book, The Funny Men (Simon & Schuster; $3-95), published this week, TV Comic Steve Allen, who labors to be funny five nights a week on NBC's Tonight, outlines the terrors of his trade and takes a measuring look at 16 of his competitors. Since he began work on the book...