Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little too cold to make much love anyway, so Joan and Alan start chasing the villain (Stanley Baker) across the polar floes. As a sort of wrong-way Simon Legree who munches Saltines as malevolently as if they were human bones. Actor Baker is good for some laughs, but by the time he is stowed in the Deepfreeze, many moviegoers will sigh a heartfelt ditto to Ladd's last line: "Come on; it's over...
MODERN ITALIAN SHORT STORIES (429 pp.)-Edited by Marc Slonim-Simon & Schuster...
...said Committee Chairman Homer Capehart. Powell had authorized Federal loan insurance on $6.5 to $7 billion worth of mortgages. The committee wanted to quiz Powell on his gambling losses, which first put the FBI on his trail and led to the housing investigations. Committee Counsel William Simon said that Powell, whose salary was $12,000 a year, had reportedly lost almost that much in one gambling session. Powell, who was appointed in 1934. clammed up tight. But the committee did put on the record that he had a long police record, although he had stated in his job application that...
...CHILD OF THE CENTURY (654 pp.) -Ben Hecht-Simon & Schuster...
...MISSION TO SPAIN (437 pp.)-Claude G. Bowers-Simon & Schuster...