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...copy as a curiosity. When they lost their jobs in Vienna, the Burnetts took their magazine to the Mediterranean island of Majorca. By 1933 Story had acquired such a patina of prestige that it attracted the attention of three smart literary middlemen of Manhattan, Publishers Bennett ("Beans") Cerf and Donald Klopfer of the Modern Library and Random House and Harry Scherman of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
Transferred to the U. S., Story became their legal property, the Burnetts staying on as editors, working alternate weeks as usual. Under the Cerf management. Story grew to some 30,000 circulation but it got few advertisements, showed no profit. It attracted the manuscripts of many an ambitious U. S. writer, "discovered" William Saroyan, Tess Slesinger, Peter Neagoe, Dorothy McCleary. Surprising was the fact that the stories in Story were not better than they were. To describe them critics invented the phrase, "The Over-the-Edge-of-the-Table School," meaning that Story stones generally had the point of view...
...Customs started the case in May, 1932 when it seized an unexpurgated copy sent to Publisher Bennett A. Cerf from Paris. Last fortnight there was a hearing in the small elegantly informal courtroom of the Bar Association Building. Publisher Cerf's lawyer, Morris Ernst, who makes a specialty of fighting censorship cases, contended that he had yet to find a single instance which proved that reading any book had led to the commission of a crime. Assistant U. S. Attorney Samuel C. Coleman asked the court not to regard him as a "puritanical censor," said he found "ample grounds...
...Margaret Anderson indicted for publishing indecent matter, caused her and her Co-Editor Jane Heap to be fined $50. Thirty thousand copies of Ulysses have been sold in France, mostly to U. S. tourists to snuggle home. Immediate results of last week's decision were two. Publisher Cerf's Random House announced a forthcoming unabridged edition of Ulysses ($3.50) for general sale. In Paris, where he was waiting for another operation on his right eye, Author Joyce said he was "pleased with the judgment," hoped to get some much needed cash out of the U. S. edition...
...Tariff Act, one copy of James Joyce's famed stream-of-consciousness novel Ulysses. Banned since its Paris publication in 1922, many a bootlegged Ulysses has been sold in the U. S. for $15 to $50. Its admission was preliminary to a suit by which Bennett Cerf hopes to legalize its U. S. publication...