Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...companies. For brothers Albert, Harry and Jack Warner, the choice between being producer-distributors or exhibitors was not too difficult to make; they have always liked picturemaking better than operating theaters. They will hang on to their shares in the studio, sell their shares in the exhibition corporation to Simon H. Fabian's Fabian Enterprises, Inc., which already controls 51 theaters...
...HEAD (149 pp.) Jean Dutourd-Simon & Schuster...
...article was about Franklin Reed, young reporter for the Houston Post, who was assigned to cover the city's draft boards, eventually got drafted himself, then wrote a column about his experiences in training camp, going overseas and, finally, serving in Korea (TIME, Oct. 13). Mrs. Richard L. Simon read the story, then handed the magazine to her husband, of the publishing firm of Simon & Schuster. "You must read this," she told him. "I'll bet Reed has a wonderful book...
...Simon read the article, got clippings of Reed's column, and decided his wife was right. In a letter to Reed, he said: "I read the clippings yesterday and felt for the first time that I, as an American, had a bridge between the everyday life I lead and the life led by the men and boys who are fighting our fight in Korea . . . You talk in terms that hundreds of thousands can understand ... as if you are talking to your friends at a bar or in a drugstore . . or during a visit on a front porch...
CHARLES DICKENS: HIS TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH (1,158 pp.)-Edgar Johnson-Simon & Schuster...