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...literary scene for nearly half a century; in Manhattan. Schuster's favorite question was always "Is there a book in it?" while Simon's was "Will it sell?" A relentless collector of ideas, Schuster personally selected and rejected manuscripts, encouraged authors such as Robert Ripley and Eddie Cantor, with his practice of assigning books rather than waiting for them to come in, and somehow found time for substantial work of his own, notably the popular Treasury of the World's Great Letters (1940). Perhaps his most inventive idea was The Bible Designed to Be Read as Living...
...Reform Jews, the most liberal in observance of the three main Jewish groups, appear to be breaking some millennia-old barriers. In 1955, Mrs. Betty Robbins became the first known Jewish woman cantor. Now 24-year-old Sally Priesand, in her fourth year of study at Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College, is determined to become a rabbi-an innovation that even many Reform leaders oppose...
Elliott's father, Bernard Goldstein, had been a Broadway paper boy back in the old days when Eddie and Ida Cantor would come over after the final curtain of Whoopee at the New Amsterdam to buy a copy of the morning edition...
...I.O.S. shares began to fall, rumor mills splattered speculative theories all over Western Europe. The British press printed gossip that I.O.S., short of cash, was unloading large blocks of its securities portfolio. Mass-circulation German dailies aired tales (equally untrue) that I.O.S. President Edward Cowett and Sales Chief Allen Cantor were attempting to force out Chairman Cornfeld...
...Blackwell, for years. In 1957 Merrick briefly ruptured the tacit ban on black stagehands by insisting on hiring some for his musical Jamaica. But that was an isolated case, and there is scarcely a black stagehand around. The union has been totally familial, a closed corporation. As Producer Arthur Cantor puts it: "You have to be born into it. It's like Pitcairn Island...