Word: simon
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Died. Richard Leo Simon, 61, co-founder with M. Lincoln Schuster of Simon & Schuster, Inc. publishing house, a former piano and book salesman who in 1924 helped launch the firm with the world's first crossword-puzzle collection (an immediate bestseller now in its 84th edition), concentrated largely on nonfiction and self-improvement works (Wendell Willkie's One World, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People), pioneered paperback publication with Pocket Books in 1939; of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn...
...SIMON Van Nuys, Calif...
...NACIONAL of Caracas: Semi-colonial peoples have never managed to emancipate themselves without counting on the rivalries be tween great powers. The U.S.S.R. oc cupies for us today the place England had when Simon Bolivar cut the um bilical cord that tied us to Spain. We would not be worthy if we did not take advantage of that reality...
...than 70 roles. He was never a leading Wagnerian, instead concentrated on the great baritone roles of the Italian repertory: lago in Otello, the elder Germont in Traviata, Scarpia in Tosca, Amonasro in A'ida. For Tibbett the Met scheduled rarely performed operas such as Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, and it was Tibbett, a longtime champion of English-language opera, who created the baritone roles in such contemporary American operas as Deems Taylor's The King's Henchman and Peter Ibbetson. To the title role of Louis Gruen-berg's The Emperor Jones he brought...
WATER OF LIFE (621 pp.]-Henry Morton Robinson-Simon & Schuster...