Word: cerf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S cover this ' week has been fracturing friends and audiences for years with this brand of humor. For Bennett Cerf, astute publisher, is also well known on TV and off as an addicted punster. As such, he has a large, sympathetic but highly competitive following among TIME writers. The urge seems to be irresistible. The signs of a practicing paronomasian at work are easy to spot: the writer hunched over his typewriter chuckling to himself, the smile twitching the corner of his mouth as he turns the story in to be edited, the expectant grin...
...Lampoon has announced the election of the following officers: Jonathan F. Cerf '68 of Lowell House and New York, president; Peter J. Gabel '68 of Lowell House and New York, Ibis; and Conn Nugent '68 of Leverett House and Larchmont, New York, Narthex...
...third, Random House has dropped the word count of big dictionaries to 260,000 from an average of 400,000. Thus it may qualify as the first heavyweight dictionary truly designed for ordinary definition seekers. And beyond that, it is the first dictionary that has had Bennett Cerf, board chairman of Random House and senior constellation of the longtime TV show What's My Line, promoting it all across the country...
...that Webster's Third contains more words (it has 450,000 of the roughly half-million in the English language). Between parade and paradise, for example, the new dictionary omits such Webster's words-mostly medicalese-as para-dental, paradentitis, paraden-tium, paradentosis, parader-mal, paradesmose, paradiazine. Cerf argues that such entries are "words no one would ever use or has ever heard...
...throws in such usable extras as a 64-page world atlas and a list of major dates. Most alluring of its extras are concise two-way subdictionaries of all commonplace words in Spanish, French, Italian and German. "We will include Russian as soon as they become our ally," says Cerf...