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...taste? Librarians (who hold that Mark Twain is still the most widely-read U. S. author) aver that they do not. Publishers of inexpensive reprints are inclined to agree with the librarians. Releasing figures last fortnight on the sale of his Modern Library series (95? and $1.25), Publisher Bennett Cerf disclosed that Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is the most popular of the Modern Library's 257 titles, has sold 120,000 copies in ten years; that Of Human Bondage and Candide sell widely enough each year to crowd all but the most popular new books. Most surprising...
Seeking Divorce. Actress Sylvia Sidney Cerf, 25; from Bennett A. ("Beans") Cerf, 37, Manhattan publisher (Random House, Inc.); in Los Angeles. Charge: cruelty...
...Ellis, began printing his Studies, which eventually ran to seven volumes and retailed for $30 per set. Mr. Davis was very strict about selling only to the professions. Since the War, however, there has been such a great change in the U. S. attitude toward sex that Bennett A. Cerf, head of Manhattan's Random House, felt safe in bringing out this week a new four-volume edition of Studies in the Psychology of Sex and selling them to all-comers at $15 per set. This unexpurgated edition, printed from the old Davis plates, had behind it a mass...
Married, Sylvia Sidney, 25, cinemactress; and Bennett Cerf, 37, Manhattan publisher (Modern Library); in Phoenix, Ariz...
Middlemen Cerf, Klopfer and Scherman frequently profess their love of literature but they are no fools. They saw that Story was getting no nearer to standing on its own financial bottom. Last week, in announcing its sale to Dr. Simon, they declared: "Story has grown out of the class where it can any longer be treated as a part-time interest." Mildly Editor Whit Burnett mentioned that the old owners had not given him enough money to expand the way he wanted...