Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book-selling jaunts around the U.S., Simon & Schuster's stooped, hulking President Richard L. Simon often buys books himself, scorning the discount dealers offer him. "I want to pay the full price," says Simon, "so I'll know after I read a book whether I got my money's worth. Most of the time...
Shedd, who had taken a leave of absence to work for the publishing firm of Simon and Shuster, was a son of Henry D. Shedd Jr., an executive of the Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, and a grandson of Monroe County Judge Henry D. Shedd. The 21-year-old victim, a graduate of the Allendale School in Rochester, is survived also by his mother, Mrs. Katherine Quinlan Shedd, and by a brother, Gordon Shedd...
...could outjump most of the rest of the world on one leg. In the first half of the two-part Nordic combined event (jumping and cross-country), they went about proving it. Norway took the first five places. The best mark: a formful, 223-ft. flight by thick-set Simon Slaattvik, who, back home, runs a locomotive on the Norwegian state railways. His jumps gave Slaattvik a good lead in the Nordic, but he still had the rugged, 18-kilometer (11.2-mile) cross-country trek ahead of him. The man he knew he would have to beat: Finland...
Retiring executives include John G. Simon '50, President; Sedgwick W. Green '50, Managing Editor; Thomas C. Simon '50. Business Manager; Jacques E. Levy '49, Photographic Chairman; Bayard Hooper '50, Associate Managing Editor; Donald Carswell '50, Sports Editor; and Edward M. Cowett '51, Advertising Manager...
Despite Equals Because. In 1922, loyal Limehouse sent Attlee to Parliament. In the first Labor government (1924) he was Under Secretary for War. Later India became his specialty. He served on the Simon Commission (1927), made two trips to India. In 1931 Labor's Ramsay MacDonald failed to carry the bulk of the Labor Party with him when he formed a coalition government with Stanley Baldwin's Tories. Old George Lansbury became head of the Labor Party for a time, but the reins of power soon passed into Attlee's hands...