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Conversation (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). The world's ten best novels, discussed by John Mason Brown, Jacques Barzun, Bennett Cerf, Clifton Fadiman...
Conversation (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). "The Ten Best Novels in the World," discussed by Clifton Fadiman, Bennett Cerf, Jacques Barzun, John Mason Brown...
...manage Falaise. Evenings, she and her husband often entertain such close friends as Broadway Producer George Abbott (who boards her ferocious bull terrier, Butcher Boy, because Harry Guggenheim will not allow him in the house), Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle, Katharine Cornell and her husband Producer Guthrie McClintic, Publisher Bennett Cerf and his wife, Brigadier General Charles A. Lindbergh (who last time brought his own camping cot because he wanted to sleep outdoors), and occasionally, her attractive older sister Elinor, who once played in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle. With her guests Publisher Patterson rarely talks about herself...
...arrived ten minutes late, breathing hard and blaming the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Gibney's first comment was that he thought most readers would have difficulty understanding A Fable. In reply, Critic Irving Howe took a surprising potshot at his own publisher. Random House President Bennett Cerf, who also doubles as a humorist and a panelist on What's My Line? Noting that Publisher Cerf had praised Fable's lucidity, Howe added: "If Bennett Cerf understands it, I'm sure that everyone else will...
...Basic Fears." The show started off as a local TV program last spring. NBC and Producer Louis Cowan pulled it off the air after eleven weeks, overhauled it, then gave it a splashless launching all over again on radio. From week to week such sophisticated raconteurs as Bennett Cerf, Marc Connelly, Abe Burrows, Steve Allen and Sam Levenson join Fadiman for the kind of lively gab that has not been heard on radio since the old days of Information Please. Item: Punster Cerf's line about Ireland's Poet George ("A E") Russell and an angry moment when...