Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach. 75, the world's No. 1 rare-book dealer and one of its most avid collectors; after long illness; in Philadelphia. Called the "Napoleon of Books" by rival bibliophiles who often watched him skim off the cream of the rare-books sales, "Rosy" owned, at one time or another, a $25,000,000 collection of rare volumes. Among them: eight Gutenberg Bibles, between 30 and 40 first folios of Shakespeare, and the famous Bay Psalm Book, first book printed (1640) in Britain's American colonies, which he bought for a "reasonable...
...Golden Hand, by Edith Simon. Life & death in a fictional English village of the 14th century (TIME, April...
...Golden Hand, by Edith Simon. Life & death in a fictional English village of the 14th century (TIME, April...
...Golden Hand, by Edith Simon. Life & death in a fictional English village of the 14th century (TIME, April...
...Predecessors. Simon Cameron formed the first really strong Pennsylvania machine about 1850, and by 1860 he was in much the same position as John Fine is today. To get Abraham Lincoln the Republican nomination, Lincoln's lieutenants had to promise Cameron a Cabinet post. He was one of the worst Secretaries of War who ever bought a carload of defective rifles, but his power in Pennsylvania was unbroken until his death (at 90) in 1889. He passed his Senate seat on to his son, but his real power fell to Matt Quay...