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Richard Lynn Simon, 71, of Bowling Green, Ohio passed away on Sunday, March 17, 2024. He was born on December 2, 1952, to the late Cyril and Mary (DeSandro) Simon in Toledo, Ohio.
Rick worked as a dedicated printer for over 48 plus years at Poole Printing. He was instrumental in not only printing precise and quality marketing pieces but the mind behind keeping the mechanics of the presses running. He was a member of St. Aloysius Catholic Church in Bowling Green and the Franklin Club. He enjoyed gardening and working on all automotives. There was never a mechanical challenge he couldn’t conquer, from a transistor radio to engines of all sorts. He had a sharp mind for historical facts, dates, numbers, and impeccable attention to detail in his work and hobbies. He had a knack for puns and a fun sense of humor. Rick was a friend to all and will be missed dearly.
He is survived by his siblings Mel (Stephanie) Simon of Altamonte Springs, Florida, Sue (Bill) Hainen of Bowling Green, Ohio, Jim Simon of Custar, Ohio, Monica (Dave) Jones of Portage, Ohio, Mike (Linda) Simon of Bowling Gre
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Not So American Anymore: Book Publishing (Part Two of Two)
Read the first part of this two-part story here.
In our last newsletter, we told the story of the great publishing house Harper Brothers, founded in 1817. In this issue, we continue our story with the tale of two powerhouse book publishers that arose over 100 years later, in the 1920s: Simon & Schuster and Random House. Those stories both start with the older publishing firm of Boni & Liveright.
Publisher Horace Liveright was known to attract smart men and beautiful women. Egotistical, insecure, and self-centered, Liveright was still able to attract some of the top authors of the times, including Theodore Dreiser, Eugene O’Neill, Sherwood Anderson, and Sigmund Freud. But Liveright was reckless with money, not a good businessman. His bookkeeper always gave Liveright financial statements showing losses, because if they showed money in the bank, Horace Liveright would spend it immediately. Always short on cash, sometimes he would “sell” a Vice-Presidency at his company, Boni &
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English (Lancashire), French, Walloon, Breton, German, Dutch, Hungarian, northern Italian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic); Spanish (Simón); Czech and Slovak (mainly Šimon); Slovenian, Croatian, and Rusyn (from Slovakia) (also Šimon): from the Biblical personal name, Hebrew Shim‘on, which is probably derived from the Hebrew verb sham‘a ‘to hearken’. In the Vulgate and in many vernacular versions of the Old Testament, this is usually rendered Simeon . In the Greek New Testament, however, the name occurs as Simōn, as a result of assimilation to the pre-existing Greek byname Sīmōn (from sīmos ‘snub-nosed’). Both Simon and Simeon were in use as personal names in western Europe from the Middle Ages onward. In Christendom the former was always more popular, at least in part because of its associations with the apostle Simon Peter, the brother of Andrew. In Britain there was also confusion from an early date with Anglo-Scandinavian forms of Sigmund(r) or Sigmund (see Siegmund ), a name
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