Word: graffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago, before an assemblage of publishers and authors in Manhattan's Rainbow Room, Robert de Graff, president of Pocket Books, presented Gertrudes to Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee) for New Adventures of Ellery Queen, to Dashiell Hammett for The Thin Man, to Thorne Smith posthumously (the prize was accepted by his two daughters) for Topper, to Max Brand posthumously for Singing Guns (a western), to Damon Runyon for Best of Damon Runyon and Damon Runyon's Favorites, and to Shirley Cunningham for The Pocket Entertainer (popular with troops...
Messrs. Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster, who are among the younger and more aggressive publishers, but not too young to have moneybags under their eyes, will continue to run S. & S. Young President Robert Fair de Graff,* 49, who owned 51% of Pocket Books, will continue to manage the company. Tycoon Field denied that he plans to use his millions to flood the U.S. with $1 books. He merely intends to provide "better and better books for more and more people...
...Publisher de Graff was left the money with which he helped start Pocket Books by his great-uncle, Robert Fair, onetime business partner of Marshall Field's grandfather...
They Dare Not Go AHunting, a psychological study of the relations between a mother and her daughter, was inspired by a line from British Poet William Ailingham's The Fairies ("We daren't go ahunting for fear of little men"). Born (1919) Dorothea Graff in Pittsburgh (she married Du Pont Engineer Donovan Cornwell on leaving high school), Author Cornwell began her literary career writing book reviews for the Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicator, later turned to short-story writing. In 1942 she won second prize in a Story magazine short-story contest. A devotee of dancing, riding, dogs and South...
Freshman Football-Head Coach: Henry N. Lamar; Assistant Coaches: John R. Graff, Richard...