Word: cerf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Named with Tucker were Harold A. Karsten, alias Abraham Karatz, a promoter who once served a jail term for bank embezzlement conspiracy; former Investment Banker Floyd D. Cerf, whose firm had a net worth of only $87,352, yet made $2,500,000 on the sale of Tucker stock; and five former Tucker directors...
Publisher Bennett Cerf, columnist and joke-anthologist, bemoaned the creative life: "It's a good thing for a publisher to turn author once in a while. He learns how easy it is to feel hurt. On publication day he looks at the papers and finds his book mentioned only among Books Published Today . . . Even his friends don't know what day this is. Life outside is actually going on as usual. It is very hard to take...
...Trib's Sunday Columnist Lucius Beebe, appearing on radio's Author Meets Critic, gave the back of his white suede glove to Saturday Review of Literature Columnist Bennett Cerf, for lifting other wits' anecdotes. Said Beebe of Cerf's newest joke book: "Really an autobiography of Jimmy Valentine...
Among them were Tucker's dealings with one Harold A. Karsten, formerly known as A. H. Karatz, a fellow promoter of the Tucker Car Corp. Tucker had attempted to conceal the Karsten connection, said SEC, because of Karsten's "criminal record."* Karsten introduced Tucker to Floyd D. Cerf Co., Inc., a Chicago underwriting firm, and later helped him negotiate his lease for the $70 million surplus Chicago Dodge plant from the War Assets Administration...
...Floyd D. Cerf Co., with net worth of only $87,352, stands to gross about $2,800,000 through the sale of Tucker stock...