Word: dunlap
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Intramural basketball will begin next Monday, with games scheduled for every day of the week, Chief Dunlap announced yesterday. The past week of practice indicates Co. C and Lowell as favorites in the House play...
...last week smart, suave Bennett Cerf, president of Random House, had lined up a potent phalanx of publishers-Charles Scribner's Sons, Little Brown & Co., Book-of-the-Month Club and Harper & Bros.-to meet the Field invasion. Along with Random House, they had purchased slipping Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., which specialized in cheap reprints. The syndicate planned to boost Grosset & Dunlap back to the top. As a starting booster, they plucked short, chunky John O'Connor, 52, out of his job as vice president of Chicago's Quarrie Corp. (World Book Encyclopedia), this week...
House football coaches include Bill Fraser of Adams, Chief Dunlap of Eliot V-12, Tom Murphy of Lowell, and Chief Newman of Eliot NROTC...
...Battle Begins. As a preliminary move, Marshall Field hired bookwise Freeman Lewis away from Doubleday, Doran as a "consultant." After long, secret conferences with Pocket Books and with Simon & Schuster (whose officials own 49% of Pocket Books), Publisher Field turned a covetous eye toward Grosset & Dunlap. He was just too late...
Last week Random House's bouncy President Bennett Cerf, editor of the Modern Library, suddenly announced that Grosset & Dunlap had been acquired by a three-firm combination: Random House, Book-of-the-Month Club (575,000 membership) and staid old Harper & Bros. The reprint house, purred Mr. Cerf, with no bow to Mr. Field, would remain in experienced book-publishing hands, would therefore retain its "high standards and traditions." Smart Publisher Cerf looked frankly pleased at having beaten Mr. Field to a buy, chatted happily about "enormous postwar markets," predicted that books would soon be "a flounder business rather...