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Senator Dodd displays the eloquent talents of a circus barker or a random rabble rouser-and on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and to applause. He defines flexibility as compromise, then defines flexibility as "not only without virtue," but as a vice. Not since the Spanish Inquisition has compromise been so perniciously attacked...
...people, and he still wants to make it on his own. Last week Publishers' Row was startled by the news that a major new publishing firm was being founded by Pat Knopf and two big bookmen-Hiram Haydn, 51, for the past three years editor in chief of Random House, and Simon Michael Bessie, 43, one of the top editors of Harper...
...notoriously old-fashioned business methods, the launching of new firms is rare. Said one intrigued bystander about the Knopf-Haydn-Bessie venture: "[It is as if] the presidents of General Motors, Chrysler and Ford left their jobs to start an automobile company." Said one publishing bigwig, who lunched with Random House Boss Bennett Cerf a week ago: "When the rumor came up, Bennett's face was a real study...
...business. They should be very, very successful." Pat Knopf's new partners are certainly very, very savvy editors. Harper's Bessie (past jobs: U.S. public affairs officer in the Paris embassy, Look editor, OWI) has worked with such authors as Marcel Ayme, Alfred Hayes and John Cheever. Random House's Haydn (past jobs: editor of Crown and Bobbs-Merrill) edits The American Scholar, the Phi Beta Kappa journal, teaches fiction writing at the New School for Social Research. He wrote several novels, notably The Time Is Noon (1948), a panoramic view of American life that included some...
...second teaching fellow, who termed this year's distribution "rather random in some cases," questioned the practicality of a graders' assignment meeting. "With such a large group," he said, "such a session could degenerate into chaos." It would be better, he suggested, to prepare a list of thesis topics submitted, send the list to all graders, and ask them to indicate their specific preferences...