Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Solicitor General of the U.S. (the Government's lawyer in cases before the Supreme Court), Simon Ernest Sobeloff, 59, Chief Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals. A son of Russian-born Jewish parents. Judge Sobeloff is a liberal Republican whose accomplishments as Baltimore's city solicitor and Maryland's U.S. District Attorney have won bipartisan respect in his state. Eisenhower selected him for the job last October, but a factional feud with Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin caused Maryland's Republican Senator Butler to block the appointment for three months. When Butler withdrew his opposition...
...born, white-thatched newsman, who, like Grant and the Journal's managing editor, started out as a railway worker. Like every other staffer, he always calls Grant "Mr. Grant." (Once he addressed him as "Boss," and Grant exploded: "That reminds me of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Simon Legree.") Editor Ferguson leaves the day-to-day operations to Managing Editor Wallace ("Chink") Lomoe, 56, a capable, hard-driving ex-state editor who came to the Journal as a reporter 25 years ago, is president of the Associated Press Managing Editors' Association. Chief Editorial Writer Lindsay Hoben...
Died. Sir John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, 80, veteran British lawyer-statesman. Foreign Secretary under Ramsay MacDonald (1931-35), Neville Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer (1937-40), who, in his memoirs, published in 1952, stoutly defended the "essential Tightness" of the 1938 Munich pact with the Axis; in London...
Designer Schnurer is a onetime elementary-art and music teacher who married a bathing-suit manufacturer 24 years ago and later went to work for him. She took her first fashion-scouting trip to South America during World War II, under the auspices of Manhattan's Franklin Simon & Co. and three other department stores, which wanted her to look for new fabrics and ideas. After brushing up on her Spanish, she went to Peru, Ecuador and Guatemala, bought clothes right off the Indians' backs, and came back with plenty of ideas, notably the design for a short, pleated...
...GREEK PASSION (432 pp.)-Nikos Kazantzakis-Simon & Schuster...