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...Simon & Schuster will publish John K. Winkler's biography entitled Hearst: An American Phenomenon...
...John Simon returned to London from India last week. He is the great Liberal barrister who is Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission (TIME, Jan. 9 et seq.). The Seven Wise Commissioners have now completed their first visit to India, a visit which has been punctuated by numerous riots and demonstrations against them. Their mission is to recommend, after much further study, what additional measure of sovereignty shall be extended to Indians. Last week Sir John struck a significant keynote when he said: "The Commission will recommend no sweeping changes in the Indian form of Government. The Indian people...
Garrulous, white bearded Mr. Smith, famed as Alfred Aloysius "Trader Horn," reached England, last week, on the S. S. Carmania, having voyaged from Manhattan with Richard Simon, a partner of the firm of Simon and Schuster, his publishers. Up to last week 168,000 copies of Mr. Smith's colorful autobiography, Trader Horn, had been sold. He, proud independent, left the U. S. without yielding to a single one of numerous tempting offers from advertisers who wanted to pay "Trader Horn" for endorsing their products...
...Therefore, last week, His Majesty was "advised" by the Baldwin Cabinet to call to the Lord High Chancellorship another "sound lawyer," Attorney General Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg. But Sir Douglas is much more than a sound lawyer with a greater legal earning power than any Britisher except Sir John Simon...
...publishers, Simon & Schuster, presumably arranged to have Mr. Smith interviewed by another of their best selling authors, famed Will (Story of Philosophy) Durant. To newsgatherers Philosopher Durant later confided: "After talking to Trader Horn, I am convinced a man can love after seventy...