Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ensuring that his records will be broadcast in at least two U.S. cities, come what may, collegiate Crooner Pat Boone (B.S., Columbia '58) joined a financial combo to buy radio stations WKDA in Nashville and KNOK in Fort Worth. Price: about...
...note) not to return till he made good. A week later police found him in Salt Lake City, barefoot, hungry and broke. He had started out with $15, the last $2 of which someone had stolen from him while he was sleeping on a lawn in Utah. Bitterly, "Pat" Knopf noted that only truck drivers had helped him ("The rest of the people are a bunch of damned snobs") in his hitchhike attempt to reach Reno, where he "knew a lot of rich people" and hoped to get started...
...firm in which his father is board chairman and his mother president. But he still knows some rich people, and he still wants to make it on his own. Last week Publishers' Row was startled by the news that a major new publishing firm was being founded by Pat Knopf and two big bookmen-Hiram Haydn, 51, for the past three years editor in chief of Random House, and Simon Michael Bessie, 43, one of the top editors of Harper...
More than Circus. By this week, Cerf's face was composed as he said: "I think it's a wonderful thing for the book business. They should be very, very successful." Pat Knopf's new partners are certainly very, very savvy editors. Harper's Bessie (past jobs: U.S. public affairs officer in the Paris embassy, Look editor, OWI) has worked with such authors as Marcel Ayme, Alfred Hayes and John Cheever. Random House's Haydn (past jobs: editor of Crown and Bobbs-Merrill) edits The American Scholar, the Phi Beta Kappa journal, teaches fiction writing...
...Knopf, 66, he had no comment on his son's exodus. A publisher who has often complained that the trade is turning out far too many books, Knopf Sr. only said: "There have always been new firms, and I guess this will be a good one," As for Pat, 41, he seemed to be on his own at last...