Word: famous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make money. If I thought nobody else was going to publish it, it wouldn't matter. But the thought that if I don't, somebody else will-I can't stand that. Besides, the real excitement is having somebody new come along, helping him get famous and watching him move to Hollywood and start calling me a son of a bitch...
...working for the distinguished publishing firm of Boni & Liveright, and now he was planning to start his own house with Max Schuster. When Cerf showed interest in replacing him, Simon arranged for Cerf to meet Horace Liveright for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel, Scotch-and-watering place for the famous authors and wits of the day. "There," he says, "were Robert Sherwood, George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Dorothy Parker-all of them! Sitting at the Round Table! I was delirious! In the middle of the lunch, I called Wall Street and told them I was never coming back...
Seized at Customs. Brash, even impudent, Cerf barreled out to sign up the best authors he could find. With the Depression whittling away at Liveright, other publishers were swooping down on the agents who represented two of Liveright's most famous authors, Eugene O='Neill and Robinson Jeffers. While they haggled, Cerf piled into "a rickety plane," flew to Sea Island, Ga., and signed up O'Neill. Ah, Wilderness! soon became the first major Random House book. "And then," says Cerf brightly, "I took a train to Carmel, Calif., and signed up Jeffers." Shortly after that...
...book was also studded with four-letter words and some swinging sex scenes, and had been barred from the U.S. After talking with Joyce, Cerf brought back a copy, which was promptly seized at customs. With Attorney Morris Ernst, Cerf took the Ulysses case to court. The now famous decision by Judge John M. Woolsey not only gave Cerf-and Joyce -an impressive victory, but it landed a staggering blow against censorship...
...Thomas tries with all his mental might to find some way he can promote the King's project without breaking God's law, but at last he declares he can do nothing. The famous crisis rapidly develops. Henry angrily renounces the authority of Rome, causes Parliament to pass a law constraining all his subjects under pain of death to swear fealty to the King as head of the church as well as the state. Sir Thomas, unable in all conscience to take the oath, nevertheless decides he is "not the stuff of which martyrs are made." Being...