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...Random Hits. Witnesses who saw the V-2 falling at night said it looked like a "falling star" or "the tail of a comet." By day, it looked like "a flying telegraph pole." Louder than V1, the rocket explosion could be heard for 20 miles...
Irrepressible Bennett Cerf, president of Random House, has pasted together six anthologies in eight years (including The Bedside Book of Famous Stories, The Pocket Book of War Humor). Now he has made a 378-page collection of his favorite jokes and anecdotes. Samples...
...Syndicate. Marshall Field should have plenty of competition. By last week smart, suave Bennett Cerf, president of Random House, had lined up a potent phalanx of publishers-Charles Scribner's Sons, Little Brown & Co., Book-of-the-Month Club and Harper & Bros.-to meet the Field invasion. Along with Random House, they had purchased slipping Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., which specialized in cheap reprints. The syndicate planned to boost Grosset & Dunlap back to the top. As a starting booster, they plucked short, chunky John O'Connor, 52, out of his job as vice president of Chicago's Quarrie...
...paper shortage made these schemes mere schemes. Random House is so pinched for paper that it did not even have enough to publish Bennett Cerf's own book of anecdotes, Try and Stop Me. So, last week, Competitor S. &. S. printed...
Last week Random House's bouncy President Bennett Cerf, editor of the Modern Library, suddenly announced that Grosset & Dunlap had been acquired by a three-firm combination: Random House, Book-of-the-Month Club (575,000 membership) and staid old Harper & Bros. The reprint house, purred Mr. Cerf, with no bow to Mr. Field, would remain in experienced book-publishing hands, would therefore retain its "high standards and traditions." Smart Publisher Cerf looked frankly pleased at having beaten Mr. Field to a buy, chatted happily about "enormous postwar markets," predicted that books would soon be "a flounder business rather...