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	ICANN \| Biographical Data on Vinton G. Cerf
		Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.
		Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet.
		Cerf and his wife Sigrid were married in 1966 and have two sons, David and Bennett.
	www.icann.org /biog/cerf.htm (726 words)

	Bennett Cerf Summary
		Cerf's college education was interrupted by World War I. After the United States became involved in the conflict, Cerf enlisted in the Army and was stationed at Camp Lee in Virginia.
		Bennett Cerf was born and brought up in New York City, where he attended the same public school as Richard Rodgers and Richard Simon.
		Cerf was married in 1936 to actress Sylvia Sidney, but the couple soon divorced.
	www.bookrags.com /Bennett_Cerf (2435 words)

	Vint Cerf
		Cerf served as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and in 1999 served a term as chairman of the Board.
		Cerf is a principal for the Global Internet Project (GIP), and he sits on the Board of Directors for the Endowment for Excellence in Education, Folger Shakespeare Library, Gallaudet University, the MCI WorldCom Foundation, Nuance Corporation, Avanex Corporation, CoSine Corporation, 2BNatural Corporation, B2B Video Networks,, the Internet Policy Institute and the Hynomics Corporation.
		Cerf also holds an appointment as distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is working on the design of an interplanetary Internet.
	www.isoc.org /isoc/general/trustees/cerf.shtml (588 words)

	Bennett Alfred Cerf
		Cerf started Random House in 1927, two years after he and Donald Klopfer acquired the Modern Library imprint that became the foundation for the new publishing venture.
		When Cerf bought his friend Alfred A. Knopf's publishing house in 1960, the deal was one of the industry's first, and most successful, mergers.
		Cerf took the job vacated by his classmate Richard Simon (Columbia College 1920), who left to start his own publishing venture with Max Schuster (Columbia College 1917).
	www.c250.columbia.edu /c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/bennett_alfred_cerf.html (380 words)

	Bennett Cerf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bennett Cerf was born and brought up in New York City, where he attended the same public school as composer Richard Rodgers and publisher Richard Simon.
		Cerf was married in 1936 to actress Sylvia Sidney, but the couple soon divorced.
		Typical of Cerf's humor was his story of an unfortunate cannibal girl who couldn't make it to the show because "her modder ate her." Daly and the audience would groan happily at such wordplay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bennett_Cerf (680 words)

	Bennett Cerf - Biography - Pun of the Day
		Prominent author Bennett Cerf (1898-1971), was an author of limericks and humor in the first half of the 20th century.
		As founder of Modern Library, Inc. and Random House in the 1920s, he was responsible for publishing many works on American and English plays and literature.
		He was the author of a number of humor, riddle and pun books.
	www.punoftheday.com /bennet-cerf.html (68 words)

	Amazon.ca: At Random: the Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf: Books: Bennett Cerf,Christopher Cerf (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bennett Cerf's legendary career had him founding, leading, then selling one of the world's pre-eminent publishing houses, writing best-selling anthology and humor collections, speaking live and appearing weekly on the "What's My Line?" quiz program.
		It was Cerf's intention to write AT RANDOM using as a basis the transcriptions of 21 question and answer interviews conducted by Mary R. Hawkins of Columbia University's Oral History program.
		Bennett Cerf, who older readers, will remember as the witty and charming panelist on the TV Show, "What's My Line?", from the l950s and 60s, will not be disappointed with his recollections.
	www.amazon.ca /At-Random-Reminiscences-Bennett-Cerf/dp/037575976X (2033 words)

	Biography: Christopher Cerf (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cerf received an Emmy Award for his work as executive producer of the show, which was chosen by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as the Outstanding Children's Program of 1988.
		Cerf is a graduate of Harvard University; while there, he served as Ibis (vice-president) of the Harvard Lampoon when it published its two famous parodies of Mademoiselle, and coauthored (with Michael Frith) Alligator, a successful send-up of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels.
		His father, the late Bennett Cerf, was co-founder and president of Random House, and nationally known as an editor, television personality, writer and humorist.
	www.annonline.com /interviews/981208/biography.html (801 words)

	Eng 621 - Book Critique (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cerf goes on to say “we prospered because of that purchase and built a base for major expansion in the thirties, during which we added some illustrious names to the Random House list,” (81).
		Cerf says “from sixty to eighty percent of the time spent with any playwright or novelist is usually devoted to talking about that author’s work.
		Donald and Cerf were always concerned with the integrity of their work, what they published, and the image portrayed by Random House.
	www.uncg.edu /eng/courses/relangen/eng621/critiques/rogerburmahl.htm (1427 words)

	Noiel's Video Collection-What's My Line?
		Arlene Francis, Liberace, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Bennett Cerf.
		Arlene Francis, Merv Griffin, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Bennett Cerf.
		Arlene Francis, Milton Cayman, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Bennett Cerf.
	members.fortunecity.com /nolspear323/collection/WhatsMyLine.html (1786 words)

	Arnold Bennett Biography from Basic Famous People - Biographies of Celebrities and other Famous People
		Enoch Arnold Bennett was born in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire the son of a solicitor.
		Enoch Bennett, his father, had qualified as a solicitor in 1876 and had an office in Piccadilly Street, Hanley.
		Their daughter Virginia Eldin lives in France and is president of the Arnold Bennett Society.
	www.basicfamouspeople.com /index.php?aid=163 (578 words)

	At Random by Bennett Cerf and Christopher Cerf : Booksamillion.com (037575976X, Paperback)
		Let's call it Random House." So recounts Bennett Cerf in his wonderfully amusing account of the making of a great publishing house.
		Cerf -- an incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and an abiding love of books and authors -- brilliantly evokes the heady days of Random House's infancy, tracing its beginnings as an offshoot of the Modern Library to its growth as a publisher of Pulitzer Prize -- winning and bestselling authors.
		Whether he's describing the fortuitous events that brought a particular author to Random House or the personalities that have shaped the house over the years, Cerf tells his story in a wholly engaging and accessible manner.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=037575976X (188 words)

	Bookview, issue 158
		On May 25, 1898, Bennett Cerf was born to Gustave and Frederika Cerf.
		When Bennett was sixteen his mother died and he dropped out of high school to attend business school.
		Bennett Cerf died in 1971 after four decades o being a major figure in American publishing.
	hometown.aol.com /_ht_a/bookviewzine/myhomepage/issue158.html (2478 words)

	BookClubs.ca \| Books \| Dear Donald, Dear Bennett by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer
		The Wartime Correspondence of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer
		Donald Klopfer and Bennett Cerf had been partners in Random House for seventeen years, but Donald decided that he had to become a part of an even greater endeavor—the defeat of Nazi Germany.
		Bennett sent Donald long newsy letters about the book business—authors, sales, publishing gossip—as well as about what was happening in New York.
	www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375507687 (313 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2001048382 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Publisher description for Dear Donald, Dear Bennett : the wartime correspondence of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer / Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer ; introduction by Bob Loomis.
		Bennett sent Donald long newsy letters about the book business—authors, sales, publishing gossip—as well as about what was happening in New York.
		Donald reacted in his wise, serene way to Bennett’s letters, and conveyed news of what was going on in the war, though sometimes censorship took its toll.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random0411/2001048382.html (274 words)

	Bennett Cerf - Muppet Wiki
		Bennett Cerf (1898 - 1971) was famous for his appearances on What's My Line?
		He is the father of Sesame Street writer Christopher Cerf.
		He was parodied by Sesame Street with the character Bennett Snerf.
	muppet.wikia.com /wiki/Bennett_Cerf (66 words)

	Bennett Cerf by Time Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine Cover Collection
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		Bennett Cerf by TIME Magazine is a wonderful piece of art and is sized at 8 x 10 Inches.
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	www.arteblanche.com /Bennett-Cerf-p-2051.html (350 words)

	Bennett Cerf Photos - Bennett Cerf News - Bennett Cerf Information
		A very talented and quick-witted man, Bennett Cerf was a humorist and publisher.
		Whenever Bennett Cerf wrote an original work, he would have it published by rival publishing house Doubleday because he felt if he published them himself his Random House authors would feel he was putting his interests in front of theirs.
		A Bennett Cerf pun: Did you hear that a major Alaskian town is banning all puppies from its city limits?
	www.tv.com /bennett-cerf/person/83991/summary.html (275 words)

	Christopher Cerf Interview with Don Swaim
		Christopher Cerf discusses his book Free to Be a Family, which is about many different types of families, and is a sequal to a book called Free to Be You and Me.
		Cerf also discusses his time at Harvard University where he studied English and worked on the Harvard Lampoon.
		Christopher Cerf's father, Bennett Cerf became the publisher in 1925.
	wiredforbooks.org /christophercerf/index.htm (335 words)

	Hertz Rent A Car Mr Bennett Cerf Ad 1958
		Description: Hertz Rent A Car Mr Bennett Cerf Ad 1958 This is a March 31, 1958 advertisement It is a nice color ad from Hertz Rent A Car.
		Bennett Cerf in a Hertz car and it reads, ""Mr Cerf driving a Hertz car keeps a campus speaking engagement on time"" Mr Cerf is on every Sunday night on What's My Line.
		Photo is taken through plastic and may show wrinkles or crookedness that is not in the ad.
	www.antiqnet.com /detail,hertz-rent-car,566948.html (143 words)

	Bennett Cerf Biography / Profile
		After Ernst accepted Cerf’s offer—which included part of the novel’s royalties if their case succeeded—Cerf met with Joyce in Paris.
		Cerf knew that U.S. courts would refuse to consider outside literary evaluations when ruling on a work, so he and Ernst prepared a copy of Ulysses with laudatory reviews pasted inside its cover.
		(Cerf later donated the special copy of Ulysses to the Columbia University Library.) After the court declared Ulysses not obscene, Cerf aggressively marketed the novel, which sold spectacularly.
	www.enotes.com /salem-lit/bennett-cerf (220 words)

	RebeccasReads.com Book Review, The Laugh's On Me
		With its touted "2,000 stories, anecdotes, and amiable observations, conveniently arranged for retelling in 100 categories", Bennett Cerf is to be remembered as one of the great gurus of raconteurs.
		Bennett Cerf was all of that and more.
		Also by Bennett Cerf: Bumper Crop; Reading for Pleasure; An Encyclopedia of Modern American Humor; Good for a Laugh; Anything for a Laugh; Laughing Stock and much more, hopefully not all out of print.
	rebeccasreads.com /reviews/13oldfri/13cerb99.html (239 words)

	My tribute page to Bennett Cerf
		My introduction to Bennett Cerf can be directly attributed to my husband.
		Cerf and could not understand my husband's persistant push for me to by one of the man's books.
		Cerf's publishing company) for not getting permission to post some of his quotes here.
	www.angelfire.com /film/bennett_cerf (232 words)

	Reviews of 'At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf'
		Cerf even wrote a short comment in some of Ms.
		The beauty of this book is that you get to know Bennett Cerf as the scholarly, brillant, and excellent businessman who met the most amazing and well known writers of the 20th century.
		This is the book you keep when you want to remember a time when, in business deals, your word was all that was needed and great writing meant having something intelligent to say.
	www.usingenglish.com /amazon/us/reviews/037575976X.html (611 words)

	Bennett Cerf Discusses Ayn Rand
		Bennett Cerf was one of the founders of Random House, the company that published Ayn Rand's
		(Cerf's memoirs were written in the late 1960s and early 1970s and published in 1977, when Rand was still alive.
		The philosophy of Ayn Rand, a twentieth-century novelist and philosopher, is known as Objectivism.
	www.noblesoul.com /orc/bio/cerf.html (862 words)

	Bennett Cerf Autographed Photograph (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bennett Cerf, 1898-1971, was a prominent author of limericks and humor in the first half of the century.
		Autographed, fl and white photograph of Bennett Cerf.
		Citation: Bennett Cerf Autographed Photograph, Special Collections, Robert Manning Strozier Library, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
	www.fsu.edu /~speccoll/cerf/cerfcoll.htm (68 words)

	Bennett Cerf on LibraryThing \| Catalog your books online
		Bennett, Illustrated by Doug Anderson Edited By Ce (separate)
		Also known as: Bennett A. Cerf (Editor), Cerf.
		Bennett, Benett Cerf, Bennet Cerf, Bennet A. Cerf, Bennett A. Cerf, Bennett A. Cerf ed.
	www.librarything.com /author/cerfbennett (465 words)

	Is Vint Cerf related to Bennet Cerf? \| Ask MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Is Vint Cerf related to Bennett Cerf, the publisher?
		I know that Vint has a son named Bennett, but I can't find any other evidence to connect the two.
		That would make his Bennett 45 years old when Vint was born.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/23907 (327 words)

	The Time God Appeared on "What's My Line?" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		BENNETT CERF: Well, from the applause, you're obviously well known.
		CERF: Well, as someone who has millions, God, it's not all that it's cracked up to be.
		Four celebrity panelists (Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Robert Q. Lewis on this particular broadcast) would then ask "yes" or "no" questions trying to determine the contestant's unusual occupation ("Makes thumb tacks" or "Female gas station attendant").
	home.earthlink.net /~mattneuman/whatsmy.htm (731 words)

	Amazon.com: At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf: Books: Bennett Cerf,Christopher Cerf (Site not responding. Last check: )
		by Bennett Cerf (Author), Christopher Cerf (Introduction) "I am a rather unusual specimen in that not only I but all four of my grandparents and both of my parents were born the..." (more)
		Dear Donald, Dear Bennett: The Wartime Correspondence of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer by Bennett Cerf
		The beauty of this book is that you get to know Bennett Cerf as the scholarly, brillant, and excellent businessman who met the most amazing and well known writers of the 20th century.
	www.amazon.com /At-Random-Reminiscences-Bennett-Cerf/dp/037575976X (2753 words)

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