Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...book-selling jaunts around the U.S., Simon & Schuster's stooped, hulking President Richard L. Simon often buys books himself, scorning the discount dealers offer him. "I want to pay the full price," says Simon, "so I'll know after I read a book whether I got my money's worth. Most of the time...
Last week Reader Simon unwrapped a plan to give other readers more for their money. Five new books on the S. & S. spring list will be published in the regular $2.75 to $3.50 clothbound editions, and simultaneously in a far bigger edition of paperbound copies to sell for $1. The firm's reasoning: mass sales of cheaper books, by creating word-of-mouth advertising, will help sell the costlier copies...
Shedd, who had taken a leave of absence to work for the publishing firm of Simon and Shuster, was a son of Henry D. Shedd Jr., an executive of the Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, and a grandson of Monroe County Judge Henry D. Shedd. The 21-year-old victim, a graduate of the Allendale School in Rochester, is survived also by his mother, Mrs. Katherine Quinlan Shedd, and by a brother, Gordon Shedd...
...could outjump most of the rest of the world on one leg. In the first half of the two-part Nordic combined event (jumping and cross-country), they went about proving it. Norway took the first five places. The best mark: a formful, 223-ft. flight by thick-set Simon Slaattvik, who, back home, runs a locomotive on the Norwegian state railways. His jumps gave Slaattvik a good lead in the Nordic, but he still had the rugged, 18-kilometer (11.2-mile) cross-country trek ahead of him. The man he knew he would have to beat: Finland...
Retiring executives include John G. Simon '50, President; Sedgwick W. Green '50, Managing Editor; Thomas C. Simon '50. Business Manager; Jacques E. Levy '49, Photographic Chairman; Bayard Hooper '50, Associate Managing Editor; Donald Carswell '50, Sports Editor; and Edward M. Cowett '51, Advertising Manager...