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Dear Donald, Dear Bennett : The War Time Letters of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer - Bennett Cerf
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Dear Donald, Dear Bennett

The War Time Letters of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer

By: Bennett Cerf, Donald Klopfer

Hardcover | 15 January 2002 | Edition Number 1

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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. Not long after Pearl Harbor, Donald, who was then forty years old, took a leave from Random House and joined the United States Army Air Forces. He served for two and a half years, finally becoming an intelligence major in a B-24 group in England.

Donald and Bennett wrote to each other regularly all during that period. 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.

This is nostalgia with substance, and because these letters were never intended to be read by anyone else, they reveal, in a convincing and wonderful way, just how special these two men were and how that specialness was reflected in the company they founded.
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"My lucky star is a house--and an imaginary one at that.
Rockwell Kent drew it, one day, sitting in my office,
and it was adopted forthwith as
a trade mark for our publishing firm.
We called it Random House because we said
we were going to publish anything under
the sun that came along--if we liked it well enough.
That was in 1928. We're trying to
make the star burn a little brighter each year."

--Bennett Cerf

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