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...desperation, Serpico, Durk and a group of other officers went to the New York Times last year to tell their story. The editors were impressed and decided to publish it. Once public pressure began to build up, the mayor appointed the Knapp Commission, which got its initial information from the men Lindsay refused to meet. The commission rapped Lindsay for being partly to blame for the corruption and charged that Leary, who resigned as commissioner last September, has a "lot to answer for in failing to provide leadership in the field...
...customers who have ignored the title and forked over $1.95 each. But does Abbie really deserve all the loot he is getting? Not according to Tom Forcade, who charged before a counterculture kangaroo court of Manhattan radicals that Abbie owes him some $8,500 for editing and helping publish the book. And not according to Izak Haber, who says he conceived the idea for Steal, did 90% of the research, wrote a 700-page manuscript that Abbie merely edited, and was promised 70% (but is getting only 22½%) of the royalties. "It was a brute-force rip-off," says...
Died. Bennett Cerf, 73, book publisher (Random House), nonstop punster and professional TV gamesman; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. After graduating from Columbia in 1919, Cerf bought his way into the book trade as a vice president of Boni & Liveright; in 1925 he borrowed from a wealthy uncle on Wall Street to buy the Modern Library from that failing firm for $200,000, later used its reprint profits to form a new company that would publish books at random, hence the name Random House. Despite his latter-day public reputation as syndicated humorist and smirking jokester of TV's What...
...Eisenhower Administration, Brownell also supervised the drafting of the current classification regulations. Beyond the conflict-of-interest problem, members of the law firm felt, as Loeb confirmed last week, that they had to consider the question of whether to inform the Government of the Times's intention to publish the Pentagon papers...
...SECRET blared the red cover slash on last week's issue of William F. Buckley's right-wing National Review. Below, in bold black letters: THE SECRET PAPERS THEY DIDN'T PUBLISH. Inside, spread over 14 pages, were memorandums "not published by the New York Times and the Washington Post, leaked to National Review." The memos were signed by, among others, former Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Admiral Arthur Radford, onetime chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...