Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rare exceptions, when a Moselle has been found to improve in bottle for as many as 15 or 20 years, but this is strictly the limit, and cannot be compared to the improvement and age of M. Peroy. Most connoisseurs would open their Moselles before three years. Andre Simon believes that the best Moselle is a very young Moselle; Maurice Healey, following Professor Saintabury, will drink a four-year Moselle, but none older. It is possible that the writer of your article was thinking of a Hock, or Rhine wine, grown somewhat to the east of the Moselles, which does...
Potluck may be a portent that BBC is nerving itself for the plunge into commercial broadcasting. The Labor Party had planned to renew BBC's simon-pure license for another 15 years, but the Tories got in and granted only a six-month extension while they take time to think things over. To solve BBC's chronic money troubles (income is limited to a small annual tax on radio and TV sets, profits from BBC publications, and appropriations by Parliament), the Tories are considering such radical departures as one all-commercial frequency for radio and, possibly, two hours...
...first most department stores bucked the trend, none more so than Manhattan's Fifth Avenue stores. They looked down their noses in 1937 when Franklin Simon first experimented with staying open until 9 p.m. Thursday nights. What changed their attitude was the loss of business to outlying shops which stayed open evenings. Today, out of 21 top Fifth Avenue stores, only eight still keep their doors locked every night of the week...
...HOPES FOR A CHANGING WORLD (213 pp.)-Bertrand Russell-Simon & Schuster...
...ACCUSED (518 pp.)-Alexander Weissberg-Simon & Schuster...