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Until Adolf Hitler took it away from its owners last year because they were Jews, the Simon family's Frankfurter Zeitung was generally rated among the four or five greatest newspapers in the world. Fortnight later Kurt Max Oswald Simon, 52, an able publisher without a country or a publication, arrived in Mamaroneck, N. Y. to marry Mrs. Therese Heilner Prince, a well-to-do U. S. widow of 66. Last week, having thoroughly prospected the odd and unfamiliar U. S. publishing scene, dapper, chunky little Dr. Simon picked a magazine to publish. His choice was the literate, unprofitable...
Middlemen Cerf, Klopfer and Scherman frequently profess their love of literature but they are no fools. They saw that Story was getting no nearer to standing on its own financial bottom. Last week, in announcing its sale to Dr. Simon, they declared: "Story has grown out of the class where it can any longer be treated as a part-time interest." Mildly Editor Whit Burnett mentioned that the old owners had not given him enough money to expand the way he wanted...
Liberal, cultivated Dr. Simon last week promised Mr. Burnett better things: simultaneous publication of Story in the U. S., Canada and Great Britain, "expansion," an able young circulation manager...
...such persistent nosebleeders were Drs. Simon Back and Harry Lawrence Jaffe. Until they became internes in Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital they bled practically every day. At Mount Sinai Hospital they encountered Dr. Samuel Mortimor Peck who was experimenting with the venom of deadly water moccasins. Moccasin venom contains an element, Dr. Peck had found, which dissolves the lining of capillaries which then permit blood to escape hemorrhagically. The same venom contains another converse element which toughens the walls of capillaries and blocks any such hemorrhage.* Dr. Peck isolated the antihemorrhagic substance, tried its effects on some animals, offered...
WINTER ORCHARD AND OTHER STORIES -Josephine Johnson-Simon & Schuster...