Word: cerf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lampoon's house rock band, the Central Park Zoo, whose members include Poonies Mark Stumpf and Peter Gabel, and whose single 45 record can be played on the juke-box in nearby Tommy's Lunch. Along with Stumpf, the prime movers behind the new record were Jonathan Cerf, who was once Ibis, and former Hasty Pudding Show writer, Peter Larson...
Usually Dave McClelland's cartoons are about the only thin to rave about, but this issue manages without him. Jonathan Cerf's full-spread cover would make a fairly sophisticated cover for the New Yorker--if he could draw an Ibis; Henry Beard's Arab-fish cartoon is reasonably amusing--which is all that Beard ever attemtps to be. He is a master at plucking the boredom or inanity out of anything or anyone, and for that talent his "Vanitas" is worth reading...
...list, although Cooper's literary defects and unerring tastelessness would fill an office wastebasket. Orlando is an unmitigated bore tirelessly indulging his libido, yearning to become head of the White House's Cultural Exchange program-a prize ultimately denied him. The book is so bad that Bennett Cerf of Random House, who used to distribute books published by Bernard Geis, refused to handle it. Some say this happened because Cerf and Sinatra are friends. But Cerf has an even better reason. "This represents the sleaziest kind of publishing there is," he says: "Books that vilify a celebrity, living...
...meanwhile precipitated some more moral wrestling among newsmakers and newsmen. Dean Rusk and Kenneth Galbraith, new head of the Americans for Democratic Action, discreetly canceled scheduled appearances on public-affairs shows, while Senator Wayne Morse passed through the AFTRA picket line to go on ABC's Scope. Bennett Cerf, who is both a union member (panelist on What's My Line?) and a management man (board member of RCA), elected, of course, not to picket...
...weeks ago, Publisher Bennett Cerf also enjoyed the experience. "What greater joy is there in the world," he asked, "than talking about yourself to someone who's paid to listen...