Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SIMON KALISH East Lansing, Mich...
...FIRESIDE BOOK OF FLYING STORIES (464 pp.)-Edited by Paul Jensen-Simon & Schuster...
Seven Wonders. In Fifty Years of Popular Mechanics (Simon & Schuster, $5), the present editors of the magazine (circ. 1,169,645) cock an uncritical eye at a half-century of publication, which reflects their nostalgic concern for the changing gadgetry of the years. The editors may have been slow to spot the Wright brothers, but by 1909 one of the first of a long line of build-it-yourself articles had Popular Mechanics readers constructing their own "gliding machine." Three years later, after polling 1,000 scientists, the magazine listed the Seven Wonders of the Modern World: "wireless, telephone, aeroplane...
PETER ARNO'S LADIES & GENTLEMEN-Simon & Schuster...
Thousands of Hollanders were ready to swear that Simon W. J. Schaasberg, whose shingle proclaimed him a "psychometrist-homeopath," had cured them of every complaint in the book, from stuffy noses and hemorrhoids to pneumonia and cancer. For years, the sick had packed the tiny front room of Shaasberg's house in Maastricht. The street was sometimes blocked by cars and chartered buses that brought patients from afar. No less remarkable than his popularity were Shaasberg's methods...