Bennett Cerf

The music for the song was written by Christopher Cerf, and the lyrics by Sharon Lerner.

Christopher Cerf, born August 19th, 1941, is the son of Bennett Cerf, the co-founder of Random House, and panelist on What's My Line?

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I had one of his books as a child, Bennett Cerf's Book of Riddles.

Yep.

I, I-

Which we're going to talk about.

So that book came from a bet from their editor, Bennett Cerf, I'm going to say as a pronunciation, bet him $50 that he couldn't write an entire book using 50 different words.

So Green Eggs and Ham has got 50 distinct words repeated throughout the book.

Sam I am.

people yeah and had like well this person this person I did think well who were the people that most important so it's connected to our PhD um and I one of the one of the people is that the supervisor I wanted to become like sort of best buddies with the supervisor for one of our PhDs because I really I just really want their buy-in their support and I think this is going to be really really hard and I want their help yeah so I just want to build a really strong relationship with that person So that's one.

And then the other thing is for Sarah and I, I think we think that the PhDs are only as useful as the people that benefit from the work that we're doing.

And so I want to build a better relationship with somebody who is the editor of things.

Sarah probably knows.

Within a year, it had the lineup America would know for the rest of Dorothy's life.

It was Dorothy, of course, and then actress and TV host Arlene Francis and Bennett Cerf, who co-founded the publishing house Random House.

Think about the reach she now had.

A column read by millions six days a week, a radio show in their kitchens every morning, and every Sunday night a seat on one of the most popular programs on network television.

Okay.

And then that is what attracts the attention of Ben- Bennett Cerf, who basically signed Capote to a contract with Random House-

Yes

... because of the success of that story.

Legendary Bennett Cerf.

Exactly.

Also responsible for smuggling Ulysses into the United States.