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...Without a blush, Publisher Bennett Cerf predicted last week that while Samuel Johnson was the great lexicog rapher of the 18th century and Noah Webster of the 19th, Random House will be the best of the 20th. Then Cerf, who helps run Random House between stints on What's My Line?, held up the evidence: the new 2,059-page, 260,000-word Random House Dictionary of the English Language. It took seven years to compile, cost $3,000,000, and at a $25 sales price, says Cerf, it is "the workingman's dictionary...
...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...
Expecting a profit of up to $150,000, the 'Poonies are already trying to devise ways to spend it. The bulk of the profit will be plowed back into the "Lampoon Castle" for restoring the interior, Jonathan F. Cerf '68 said last night...
...story of the novelist's final years, which Random House plans to publish in April. The book bristles with intimate details of Hemingway's slow deterioration. On reading the galleys, Mary says, she suffered "a traumatic shock." In a letter to Random House Board Chairman Bennett Cerf, she accused Hotchner of "shameless penetration into my private life and the usurpation of it for money." She demanded a long list of changes in the book. The author and the publisher agreed to many of them, but Hotchner flatly refused to delete the last chapter, which recalls how he urged...
...seemed a cinch for lilies within the week. It was by an unestablished author, had no big-name director or stars, was starting in late season, and had only a scrawny $165 advance. But just because the odds seemed so overwhelmingly against it, Roses became a cause. Publisher Bennett Cerf took a personal ad to praise it, Harry Belafonte distributed promotional roses, and the box office slowly built just enough to keep Roses in bloom. Then two weeks ago, the New York Drama Critics Circle called it the best drama of the year and the cast broke out champagne. That...