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...primarily a Navy show. Of the 22 reporters, researchers, writers and editors in twelve TIME Inc. bureaus at home and abroad who worked directly on the story and color layout, nine were former officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps. The roster: Edward Cerf, Louis Banks, Champ Clark. Cranston Jones, Alvin Josephy, Tom Lambert, Curtis Prendergast, Robert Ajemian and Clay Blair...
...dailies. The only Negro daily in the North, and the second in the U.S. (after Atlanta's World), the Defender still concentrates heavily on Negro news. But, for the first time, it is running such features as an I.N.S. summary of world news, Columnists Robert Spivack and Bennett Cerf, a crossword puzzle and six comics, e.g., Henry, Donald Duck...
...Chicago to read his poetry as a prelude to a $50-a-plate champagne supper and literary auction this week, then lined up guests and sponsors to pay for the supper so that all the receipts would go to Poetry. He ran afoul of a few Philistines. Publisher Bennett Cerf refused to kick in declaring roundly that "Poetry is dead " but when Lannan let that be known among the literati, Cerf came around. Louis Untermeyer thought the whole idea vulgar" and Poetry not worth saving. ("He's nothing but an anthologist anyway," sniffed Lannan.) One Manhattan lawyer coldly refused...
Conversation (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). "Basic Fears," discussed by Clifton Fadiman, Bennett Cerf, Charles Siepmann, Dr. John P. Spiegel...
Look & Listen. The ideal straight man of the quiz shows is Publisher Bennett Cerf of What's My Line? He fills the role of the man of substance, serious, determined, but not quite as scintillating as the rest of the panel. When he does solve a contestant's trade, he is likely to worry the problem like a dog with a bone, asking repeated questions long after it is obvious to even the dullest viewer that he knows the answer. Cerf's apparent function is to slow down the headlong pace of the game. He does...