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...trade patter for out of print). They saw nothing funny about it. "It is," said Ben nett Cerf, publisher of Random House's $3.50 edition of Donne, "a distressing story." Almost as distressed was the Ox ford University Press, which publishes two editions of Donne's poetry, an edition of his prose...
Married. Bennett A. ("Beans") Cerf, 42, shrewd, big-boyish Manhattan publisher (Random House-Modern Library); and onetime Cinemactress Phyllis Eraser, 25; in New York City; she for the first time, he for the second. In 1936 Publisher Cerf was divorced by Cinemactress Sylvia Sidney...
...Demand for Action." On the newsstands appeared Vol. 1, No. 1 of Equality, "A Monthly Journal to Defend Democratic Rights and Combat Anti-Semitism and Racism." Conceived by Prince Hubertus zu Löwenstein (a Catholic), Equality has on its editorial council such prominent Jewish intellectuals as Publisher Bennett Cerf, Playwrights Moss Hart and Lillian Hellman, Anthropologist Franz Boas. Its first issue contains articles on anti-Semitism by such potent non-Jews as Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Author Donald Ogden Stewart, Warden Lewis E. Lawes, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. Its credo...
Because they are full of martial naïveté, doll-like action and nicely faded coloring, these pictures delight shrewd, big-boyish Manhattan Publisher Bennet A. Cerf, who last year published The Public Papers & Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week Publisher Cerf announced that his Random House will publish the Meyers drawings this year, with an introduction by Mr. Roosevelt-a Presidential picture book in a limited edition of 1,000 copies...
Married. Sylvia Sidney (née Kosow), 28, cinemactress, divorced wife of Publisher Bennett ("Beans") Cerf (Random House); and Luther Adler, 35, actor (Golden Boy), youngest son of the late Tragedian Jacob P. Adler of the Royal Family of the Yiddish theatre; in London...