Word: cerf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News cannot be copyrighted, and can be reprinted by anyone after 24 hours. Since the words of a newsworthy person (even his barroom babble) are news, neither Leonard Lyons nor Bennett Cerf nor any other writer has a right to copyright them...
...latter-day Joe Miller, Publisher Bennett (Random House) Cerf modestly styles himself "a regular incubator for anecdotes and witty quips." While incubating his hugely successful (600,000 copies) Try and Stop Me, Cerf went gag-gathering to magazine files, the radio, and his friends, ''devoured reams of columns" by Manhattan gossips...
Last week Walter Winchell and Leonard Lyons, two whose words he had read, marked, eaten and regurgitated, were tongue-deep in a campaign to give him indigestion. What riled them, besides the thought of Cerf's mounting royalties, was his failure to give them credit. It was an old failing of their...
Ezra Pound got into a Random House poetry anthology that had excluded him as a traitor, but Publisher Bennett Cerf took pains to be understood. He had finally decided, said Cerf in his Saturday Review of Literature column, to reinstate the poet, chiefly because: "Once begun, where can you draw the line in this sort of thing? . . . This does not mean," Cerf hastened to say, "that my abhorrence for Ezra Pound the man has abated one iota. . . ." To make assurance doubly, sure, Cerf would run a footnote characterizing Pound as "a contemptible betrayer of his country...
Divorced. By Sylvia Sidney, 37, cinemactress and onetime wife of Publisher Bennett (Try and Stop Me) Cerf: Luther Adler, 42, actor son of famed Yiddish Actor Jacob P. Adler; after seven and a half years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...