Word: simons
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Says he: Publishers Simon & Schuster have most successfully developed the art of "panicking" the public into buying their books-books often intrinsically worthless. Says Critic Notch: "Anyone who reads Trader Horn at a distance of years sees it for what it is: senile drivel touched up with loving skill by a third-rate novelist." Notch attacks the Book Clubs: "The intellectual appeal of the Book Clubs is simple, frank-and dishonest. . . . Here [in having well-known critics select the books] is a calculated misunderstanding of the critic's function: which is to produce good literature...
Musical?EARL CARROLL'S SKETCH BOOK, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, SONS o' GUNS, KILPATRICK'S OLDTIME MINSTRELS, THREE LITTLE GIRLS, SIMPLE SIMON...
Musical ?EARL CARROLL'S SKETCH BOOK, SONS o' GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, SIMPLE SIMON (Ed Wynn...
...nine men broke into his mansion at Downers Grove, Ill., bound his family, stowed him in a basement vault to smother, stole $20,000 worth of jewelry, $500 in cash, 25 cases of whiskey. Last week Mr. Cutten's detectives caught the eighth of his 1922 assailants, one Simon Rosenberg, the gangleader, in Cleveland. Gloated Mr. Cutten: "Number eight! When I get number nine, this one's brother, I'll be through with...
Musical-EARL CARROLL'S SKETCH BOOK, SONS O' GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, WAKE UP AND DREAM, SIMPLE SIMON...