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...distribute books published by Bernard Geis, refused to handle it. Some say this happened because Cerf and Sinatra are friends. But Cerf has an even better reason. "This represents the sleaziest kind of publishing there is," he says: "Books that vilify a celebrity, living or dead, under the thinnest of fictional disguises. One or two such books have sneaked on our lists in past years.* But as long as I'm here, I can promise it won't happen again...
Perhaps it's the heat. Or maybe the humidity. Whatever the cause, people everywhere are coming down with a highly contagious disease-the latest running gag. Right now it is the Thinnest Books, a joke started by Comedian Morey Amsterdam. Thin books are insults between covers, and thinking them up is as hard to resist as a second handful of peanuts. Samples...
...contrast. Harvard is 1-4, with only 7-5 win over M.I.T. to brag about. to midfielders Dexter Newton and Marry Van Oudenallen have hurt the at its thinnest position. Capitain Gates was hurt in the M.I.T. game. Though veterans Dick Ames and Ted have been impressive, the attack has been inconsistent; the seven goals against M.I.T. were the most the Crimson a scored this season...
Murphy's victory last week over short-term Incumbent Democrat Pierre Salinger was a classic study in how to handle the California electorate. Democrats there outnumber Republicans 3 to 2. To rate even the thinnest chance of winning, Murphy not only had to hold onto all factions of the G.O.P., from rabid-right kooks to solid moderates, he also had to pick up some 20% of Democratic and Independent votes...
Instead of savage young malcontents, the American program is largely staffed with familiar commercial personalities like Elliot Reid and Henry Morgan flinging around nightclub material that would be tossed out of the thinnest of topical revues...