Cerf was the subject of Jessica Mitford's exposé, published in the June 1970 issue of Atlantic Monthly, which denounced the business practices of the Famous Writers School, which Cerf had founded.
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In 1944 Cerf published the first of his collection of joke books, Try and Stop Me, with illustrations by Carl Rose.
This decision, which came about in a test case engineered by Bennett Cerf of Random House, was affirmed by a 2-1 vote of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in an opinion by Judge Augustus N. Hand.
Arlene Francis, Mark Goodson, Ginger Rogers, and Bennett Cerf were on the panel and successfully guessed her "line" as a racecar driver.
Tony Bennett | Joan Bennett | Alan Bennett | Constance Bennett | Jeff Bennett | Edward H. Bennett | Bennett Cerf | Vint Cerf | W. A. C. Bennett | Michael Bennett | Bennett S. LeBow | Arnold Bennett | Richard Rodney Bennett | Phillip R. Bennett | John Bennett Ramsey | Bill Bennett | John G. Bennett | James Gordon Bennett, Jr. | Robert Russell Bennett | Joseph Bennett | John M. Bennett | Clay Bennett | Bennett Johnston | Al Bennett | Susan Bennett | Shannon Bennett | Roy C. Bennett | Robert Bennett | L.K.Bennett | Henry Bennett |
Speakers presented during the Davies years included John Mason Brown, Margaret Bourke-White, Bennett Cerf, Norman Cousins, Bernard DeVoto, Sinclair Lewis, Wayne Morse, Carl Rowan, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Dorothy Thompson.