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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...
...book under discussion: McHugh's just-published The Blue Hen's Chickens. What probably shocked Sumner (though he didn't say): an octet of pornographic love poems, "derived" from a translation of Catullus. To Sumner's charge, Random House's joke-collecting President Bennett Cerf (Try and Stop Me) cried: "Absurd!" But Publisher Cerf was not all indignation. "Maybe," he mused, "it will help good poetry get some sales...
...other names and other activities. As Hans Berger he wrote articles for the Daily Worker. As Julius Eisman he made frequent visits to the Manhattan offices of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee-a Communist front organization which had duped Bennett Cerf, Charles BOyer, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and many another big name into becoming its sponsors. The Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee gave him monthly checks for $150. By means of the party grapevine, he was in touch with Samuel Kogan, alias Carr, a member of Canada's Communist atomic spy ring...
With six servants to care for their establishment, the O'Neills lived with the guarded, exquisite frugality possible to the rich: quietly idling, reading or playing records in the evenings, occasionally entertaining one or another of their few close friends, less often putting up people like Publisher Bennett Cerf, never giving parties. It was a fertile, happy life, for people who knew how to use it, and in their early middle age the O'Neills knew very well...