Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SIMON BEAUCROIX, squire, one of her companions at arms: "She would never allow immoral women to come to the army and join the soldiers . . . She drove them away unless the soldiers were willing to take them for their wives...
...what his students really wanted to learn was how to make a good impression on their bosses and friends. His institute boomed into a quasi religion whose 450,000 disciples were certain that he had pointed the way to success. In 1935, Publisher Leon Shimkin of Manhattan's Simon & Schuster persuaded Carnegie to collect his lectures. The result, How to Win Friends, sold 5,000,000 copies in the English editions, was translated into 31 languages (including a recent Burmese version by Prime Minister U Nu). Sample Carnegie maxims: i) let the other man feel the idea...
THURBER'S DOGS, by James Thurber (294 pp.; Simon & Schuster: $3.95), are certainly the most lovingly regarded dogs in U.S. literature. Whether he draws them or writes about them, Thurber does it with the air of a man who knows what it is to lead a dog's life. A collection of pieces and pictures sometimes as affecting as they are funny...
...PIPE, by Georges Herment (164 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $4.95), is an amusing, discursive history of pipes and pipe smoking. Care and cleaning, seasoning, choice of tobacco, how to fill and then empty the bowl, are all gone into with light seriousness-and sometimes almost with mysticism. In an introduction, British Humorist Stephen (Lifemanship) Potter explains about pipemanship, e.g., "practiced pipe smoking is capable of making a cigarette smoker seem flustered and untidy, particularly if [he] maintains a long worm of ash messily drooping from his cigarette...
...Hiroshima Maidens on a trip to the U.S. for surgical treatment; the New York Quakers offered to find them homes. In charge (without fee) of the long, arduous program of surgery at Mt. Sinai are three of the nation's top plastic surgeons: Dr. Arthur Barsky, Dr. Bernard Simon and Dr. Sidney Kahn...