1. Great American Fortunes - Bennett Cerf: Published at Random
26 mei 2014 · Knopf for 135,000 shares of Random House stock, worth roughly $3 million, followed a year later by the purchase of Pantheon books. In 1966 ...
PHOTO: Library of Congress While older Americans may recognize Bennett Cerf from CBS Television’s “What’s My Line?” many may not kn...
2. Bennett Cerf's Italianate Brownstone, Manhattan, New York
Bennett Cerf's Italianate Brownstone, Manhattan, New York. Favorite. Offered at $15,500,000. Glowing anew after two years of restoration by master ...
Glowing anew after two years of restoration by master craftsmen living on site, the Italianate brownstone built in 1871 by John Sexton is one of Manhattan’s prized treasures. For fifty years it was home to Bennett and Phyllis Cerf: he the founder of Random House, and she editor of the Dr. Seuss books. A social
3. Bennett Cerf Dies; Publisher, Writer - The New York Times
29 aug 1971 · Few book publishers were more widely known than Ben nett Alfred Cerf, although he was more often identified as a television personality, racon ...
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4. FAMILIES: Christopher Cerf on Being a 'Responsible Kid' and Life Without ...
30 aug 1979 · Bennett and Phyllis Cerf did not take Moss Hart's advice. "They never spanked us and for that I am grateful," says Christopher Cerf. Story ...
The National Lampoon and Sesame Street. Christopher Cerf sees no inconsistency in being involved in extremes.
5. Publishing: A Cerfit of Riches | TIME
Bennett Alfred Cerf, 68, is an open book. Board ... worth of volumes to the buyers' doors every year. ... A sale of 5,000 hard-cover copies at $5.95 will net the ...
PUBLISHING (SEE COVER) And now, panel, for the mystery guest. Masks in place? Good. He is salaried. He works for a profit-making organization. He deals in a product. It is smaller than a breadbox. On...
6. Bennett Cerf | Humorist, Author, Publisher | Britannica
21 mei 2024 · Bennett Cerf (born May 25, 1898, New York, New York, U.S.—died August 27, 1971, Mount Kisco, New York) was an American publisher and editor.
Bennett Cerf was an American publisher and editor. With Donald S. Klopfer, in 1925 Cerf acquired the Modern Library imprint, which subsequently became a highly profitable series of reprints of classic books. In 1927 they began publishing books other than Modern Library titles as Random House, of
7. Bennett Cerf | Game Shows Wiki - Fandom
Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25, 1898 – August 27, 1971) was an American publisher and co-founder of the American publishing firm Random House.
Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25, 1898 – August 27, 1971) was an American publisher and co-founder of the American publishing firm Random House. Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television appearances in the panel game show What's My Line? Bennett Cerf was born on May 25, 1898, in Manhattan, New York, to a Jewish family of Alsatian and German origin. Cerf's father Gustave Cerf was a lithogr
8. Bennett Cerf - Wikidata
Spanish. Bennett Cerf. editor estadounidense. Bennett Alfred Cerf ; Traditional Chinese. 貝內特·瑟夫. No description defined ; Chinese. 班奈特·塞爾夫. No ...
See AlsoJenny Scordamaglia NippleAmerican publisher and author (1898-1971)
9. History: Humorist Bennett Cerf was regular visitor to Palm Springs
5 sep 2021 · History: Random House co-founder Bennett Cerf palled around with Sinatra, Burns in desert. Tracy Conrad. Special to The Desert Sun. Two ...
Cerf, the co-founder of Random House, followed in the tradition of Mark Twain and Will Rogers. His humor was clever and universal, featuring playful language.
10. Cerf, Bennett Albert | Encyclopedia.com
CERF, Bennett Albert(b. 25 May 1898 in New York City; d. 27 August 1971 in Mount Kisco, New York), publisher, writer, and television personality who played ...
CERF, Bennett Albert(b. 25 May 1898 in New York City; d. 27 August 1971 in Mount Kisco, New York), publisher, writer, and television personality who played a major role in the publishing revolution of the 1960s that, over the remainder of the century, transformed a business of gentlemen into a mass marketing enterprise dominated by communications industry conglomerates. Source for information on Cerf, Bennett Albert: Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: The 1960s dictionary.
11. At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf - Goodreads
At once a rare behind-the-scenes account of book publishing and a fascinating portrait of four decades' worth of legendary authors, from James Joyce and William ...
“I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We jus…
12. Books - Gayle Feldman
Gayle Feldman's biography of Bennett Cerf (1898-1971), the cofounder of Random House, tells the story of a remarkable American life lived large, at the ...
The website maintained by the author Gayle Feldman.
13. How Bennett Cerf got James Joyce's Ulysses into the US - IrishCentral
16 jun 2018 · Editor's note: On Sunday, June 16, Ireland and the world celebrates the genius of Irish novelist James Joyce and his most famous work, ...
The story of how Ulysses was finally published in the US is full of twists, turns, and surprises. On Bloomsday, it’s always enlightening to remember what James Joyce went through to get Ulysses—the ultimate “dirty” book—published. Sometimes lost in the two-continent struggle, is how Ulysses finally got into the...
14. [PDF] Bennett Cerf and Random House - UNI ScholarWorks
8 jun 1976 · Abstract. In a speech to the New York Society of Security Analysts in 1960, Bennett Cerf stated, "It is my opinion.
15. Bennett Cerf | Encyclopedia.com
29 mei 2018 · Bennett Cerf. Bennett Cerf (1898-1971) helped to shape the American publishing business into what it is today. A writer and television ...
Bennett Cerf >Bennett Cerf (1898-1971) helped to shape the American publishing business >into what it is today. A writer and television personality, Cerf was also an >active editor and enthusiastic promoter of the writers published by his >company, Random House.
