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...gloom of the coal strike, and the smoke of Hoboken, N.J., U.S. Steel last week held its annual stockholders' meeting. For the 200 who attended, such as sisters Mary & Carrie Cerf, who seldom miss a meeting, the news was bad. Chairman Irving S. Olds reported that Bis Steel's production had dropped to 36% of capacity, from 95% a week before the strike started, and earnings had dropped with it. Nevertheless, he declared the usual $1 a share quarterly dividend, hoped that the "tremendous existing demand for steel products of all kinds" will eventually make Big Steel...
Born. To Bennett A. (Try and Stop Me) Cerf, 47, joke collector, publisher (Random House-Modern Library), self-styled "superficial fellow with catholic tastes"; and Phyllis Eraser Cerf, 30, one time cinemactress: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Jonathan Fraser. Weight...
News cannot be copyrighted, and can be reprinted by anyone after 24 hours. Since the words of a newsworthy person (even his barroom babble) are news, neither Leonard Lyons nor Bennett Cerf nor any other writer has a right to copyright them...
...latter-day Joe Miller, Publisher Bennett (Random House) Cerf modestly styles himself "a regular incubator for anecdotes and witty quips." While incubating his hugely successful (600,000 copies) Try and Stop Me, Cerf went gag-gathering to magazine files, the radio, and his friends, ''devoured reams of columns" by Manhattan gossips...
Last week Walter Winchell and Leonard Lyons, two whose words he had read, marked, eaten and regurgitated, were tongue-deep in a campaign to give him indigestion. What riled them, besides the thought of Cerf's mounting royalties, was his failure to give them credit. It was an old failing of their...