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Show ir- - if. mmmmmmmtrnMitmisfA jtSl ,,., Noted author and publisher Bennett Cert will be speaking in Kings-,. Kings-,. bury Hall April 29, "What are movies and television doing to litera- '"' hire today." Bennett Cerf To Speak On Campus ,,' Bennett Cerf, publisher, televi-lj' televi-lj' sion panelist and author will speak c at the University on April 29, spon- sored by the University Lectures and Concerts office. His lecture, entitled, "What are the Movies and Television doing to Literature Today," To-day," will be presented at 8 p.m. oj in Kingsbury Hall, i; Currently the chairman of the t board of Random House publishing 5 firm, Mr. Cerf founded the company com-pany in 1925 with Donald Klopfer. In that year he also purchased the Modern Library Series and turned these books into a set of modestly priced classics available to the public. He has since published a long - and impressive list of authors t31 some of them once considered, "too hot for American readership." The names of Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, James Michner and Dr. Seuss and others are on the list of writers published first or early by Cerf. In 1960, Random House acquired the Alfred A. Knopry publishing and in 1961 bought out Pantheon Boos. Until its demise this season, Cerf was a regular panelist on the television tele-vision show, "What's My Line." He was graduated from Columbia Colum-bia University in 1920 with a BA and Lit degree from the Pultizer School of Journalism. He was also named to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity. On campus he served as editor of the humor magazine, "The Jestor." Following graduated he served on the staff of the New York Herald-Tribune and was a clerk on the New York Stock Exchange. Tickets to the Cerf lecture will be sold in advance at the University Univer-sity Lectures and Concerts Office. |