Word: simon
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Utah, all non-Mormons are called Gentiles. The first Gentile Governor (1917-21) of Utah was Simon Bamberger...
...year-old son, Howard Brennan ("Bud") Johnson, but he continues to run the show. He cruises' the highways in a chauffeured black Cadillac bearing the license plate HJ-28 (for the number of his ice-cream flavors) and a silvery replica of his soft-sell characters, Simple Simon and the Pieman, on the hood. He discovers half a dozen new restaurant and motel sites a year, claims that the success of his rapidly spreading motels is due to the fact that he builds them on sites that seem a natural place for restaurants...
...another of Walt Disney's magnificently photographed and sometimes irritatingly edited True-Life Adventures, a series designed to show that the works of nature are almost as manifold as those of the California animator. This time the area filmed by Disney's camera-equipped naturalists (James R. Simon, Lloyd Beebe and the late Hugh Wilmar) is the Amazon rain forest, a jungle so nearly impenetrable that only its major rivers have been named. The region's thousands of species of plants grow in a steaming tangle, in some places 200 ft. high, and only the animals able...
...novel without any lightning from Olympus; Henry Morton Robinson accomplished it this year with Water of Life, a book he thought up all by himself as a cynical imitation of Taylor Caldwell. Author Jaffe, on the other hand, has taken a step forward; her new novel, Away from Home (Simon & Schuster; $4.50), is not non. It is merely...
...LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (506 pp.)-Nlkos Kazantzakis-Simon & Schuster...