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...Books: Simon & Schuster's Napoleonic chief gets...
Under Snyder, Simon & Schuster became almost as avid as a Hollywood studio in its pursuit of hot properties and star writers. Among the authors it rewarded with big advances were Jackie Collins, Mary Higgins Clark, Kitty Kelley, Bob Woodward, Rush Limbaugh and Ronald Reagan, who was reportedly paid $7 million for his memoirs. For class, Simon & Schuster plucked Philip Roth away from his prestige publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Although only about 10% of Simon & Schuster's revenues come from trade publishing, that is where the glitz lies. Says top literary agent Morton Janklow: "Trade publishing is like couture in fashion...
...most persistent investigator is Fadila Memisevic. She has compiled a list of 1,350 suspects along with evidence she believes to be strong enough to satisfy international legal standards. Memisevic, a Muslim refugee from Zenica, has received advice from Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal in developing the cases and has applied his rule that each episode must be supported by the testimony of five witnesses. "In many cases we have 100 witnesses," she says...
...folder Humphreys found a sketchy narrative about a child abandoned by her 13-year-old mother and left to be raised by a grandmother who is beaten to death by her second husband. Daddy, as he is called, is not only a killer but a tyrant, an African-American Simon Legree, who turns Ruthie into a body servant. She shaves him, bathes him and cuts the calluses off his feet. When displeased -- which is often -- he beats her with the buckle end of a belt. The narrator was no angel either: she used drugs and traded sex for cash...
Tyrannical but talented Simon & Schuster CEO booted by Viacom...