Word: ziff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illusions about his stories' immortality, although he thinks that Book No. 17, New York: Confidential! (Ziff-Davis; $2.75), may last a little longer than some of the others. It is a cynical, side-of-the-mouth guidebook that prices everything from pizzerias to call girls; Lait wrote it with his nightclub columnist and protégé, Lee Mortimer (the man Sinatra socked). Having sold 20,000 copies in its first fortnight, and sold to the movies for $50,000, it is off to a better start than Lait's The Big House (200,000 copies...
...LONG HOLIDAY (249 pp.)-Francis Ambrière, translated by Elaine P. Halperin-Ziff-Davis...
This week, in an impressive volume (Faces of Destiny, Ziff-Davis; $5) Karsh, now 38, shows 75 of the best pictures of the 500 notables he has snapped. In an explanatory text he also discourses on his subjects. Here & there, in his sitters' studio manners, he finds a few minor guideposts to history...
LINCOLN'S OTHER MARY (229 pp.)-Olive Carruthers [with historical appendix by R. Gerald McMurtry)-Ziff-Davis...
Publisher William B. Ziff, amateur aviation enthusiast and determined author (The Gentlemen Talk of Peace), is the man behind the Romford plan. Explains Ziff: "My son went to an ordinary prep school, but his real education was picked up in our home-meeting the industrialists, statesmen, journalists and educators who are my friends." Ziff wanted to see a school with "the advantages of a first-class salon...