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unusual facts about John Simon


Whitechapel and St George's by-election, 1923

Leading Liberal, Sir John Simon who had gained a seat from Labour at the 1922 General Election, came to speak in support of Kiley.


Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye

Becoming a Liberal National for the 1931, he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to then Home Secretary, Sir Herbert Samuel, then to Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary, in the National Governments of the 1930s.

Garner's Modern American Usage

Other critics, from John Simon to William Safire to Bill Walsh to Barbara Wallraff, have praised the book's clear, simple, and nuanced guidance.

Henry Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton

He served in various positions at the British embassies in Washington and Stockholm and was also assistant private secretary to the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, from 1932 to 1934 and First Secretary to the War Cabinet Office from 1939 to 1940.

The Medium Is the Massage

An audio recording based on the book was made by Columbia Records in the late 1960s, produced by John Simon but otherwise keeping the same credits as the book.


see also

A. J. Croce

He recorded two albums for Private Music: his self-titled debut, A. J. Croce, produced by T-Bone Burnett and John Simon, and That's Me in the Bar, produced by Jim Keltner, and featuring artists such as Ry Cooder, David Hidalgo, and Keltner himself.

Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

Board members include prominent American legal scholars such as Professors Owen Fiss and John Simon (Yale University), Lawrence Douglas (Amherst College), and Laura Dickenson (Arizona State University), and prominent Iranian-American author Roya Hakakian.

Jonathan Weinberg

Weinberg was on the faculty of Yale's Department of the History of Art from 1989-2001, and has since been a John Simon Guggenheim fellow, a Mills fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a Sterling fellow at the Clark Art Institute, and scholar and artist-in-residence at the Getty.

Seymour Boardman

He was recipient of Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Award.

Welcome Change Productions

Alice Elliott is an Academy Award® nominated director, a writer, producer, university level teacher, advocate for the disabled, cinematographer, and the recipient of 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.