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...Without a blush, Publisher Bennett Cerf predicted last week that while Samuel Johnson was the great lexicog rapher of the 18th century and Noah Webster of the 19th, Random House will be the best of the 20th. Then Cerf, who helps run Random House between stints on What's My Line?, held up the evidence: the new 2,059-page, 260,000-word Random House Dictionary of the English Language. It took seven years to compile, cost $3,000,000, and at a $25 sales price, says Cerf, it is "the workingman's dictionary...
...Clubs were used freely," said; many prisoner and bleeding.... A CRIMSON rapher, Norman Weil, Jr. '54, that the officer who arrested him "Getting arrested will teach you vard bastards a lesson...
Ireland's tosspot Playwright-Autobiog-rapher Brendan Behan, a portly 36, tippy-toed back into London, whose citizens he treated last July to the spectacle of one of the most monumental binges of modern times. Proudly proclaimed Wife Beatrice, who did not accompany Behan on his summer pub safari: "He's been off the gargle for a week or two. He's been very good." In a Piccadilly bar, Behan hoisted just one wee nip and bellowed: "To success!" Clinking glasses with him, Beatrice responded: "Success to abstinence!" Then Behan lumbered off to the theater to catch...
...fixture of the countryhouse and the coffeehouse, and was taken up by the new masters of the countinghouse. In his excellent new study, Biographer Hesketh Pearson (G.B.S., Dickens, Oscar Wilde) calls Scott "the first of the best-selling novelists." In his artful little life of the elder Dumas, Biog rapher André Maurois (Proust, Disraeli, Voltaire) says: "Better than any other novelist, Dumas knew how to share and satisfy the passions of the masses...
...even been known to drain his own sphenoid cavity, an intricate and highly painful process. Among his prized possessions is a photograph made of him by his friend Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, onetime associate editor of Munscy's, editorial writer on the New York Sun. Inscribed Photog- rapher Davis: "It isn't a masterpiece, but then neither is Byoir...