Word: cerf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there, supplemented by others of their lupine ilk. Of interest to Co. 3 was the appearance of Kenny Byrd who drew his proboscis from within his Memo and showed the girls his Lone Star style. The man's a positive Romeo on the dance floor. Then, too, there were Cerf, Andrews and Brokenshire all waiting for Honest Tom Gaimes--and incidentally...
Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Master of Leverett House, and book review editor of "The New England Quarterly" has been appointed, with Bennet Cerf, editor for Random House and "The Saturday Review of Literature," and Waldemar Kaempffert, science editor of the New York Times, to the Book Committee of "The Key Reporter," membership quarterly of Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary society...
Philip Van Doren Stern, Manhattan publisher, was noted by The Saturday Review of Literature's Columnist Bennett Cerf for his quick response to a suggestion that Armed Services Editions (of which he is an editor) print The Ten Commandments. Mulled Stern, who once worked for best-selling literary treasurers Simon & Schuster: "How about using only five of them and calling it A Treasury of the World's Best Commandments...
...Swamped the small, clannish, secretive book industry, with its 274 firms and 4,000 highly organized, well-informed employes. Said Random House's President Bennett Cerf: "It's unbelievable. It's frightening." Pocket Books, which at 25? apiece sold 5,000,000 copies in 1940, 10,000,000 in 1941, 20,000,000 in 1942, sold 38,000,000 in 1943. Even the ponderous university presses reported sales up 20-30%; in one month (October), sales of the one-volume Columbia Encyclopedia jumped...
Random House's Bennett Cerf gave Lawson and Considine an advance of $7,500. (Considine asked for $5,000.) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid $100,000 for movie rights. Except for the $12,000 from Collier's, which was entirely Captain Lawson's (the magazine paid Considine $4,500), the flyer and the newspaperman divided the book's earnings-two-thirds to Lawson, one-third to Considine...