Cerf
Americannoun
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“There’s an adage that I have come to quote repeatedly, and it is if you want to do something big, get help, especially from people who are smarter than you are,” Cerf said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
On a snowy night in 1961, Bennett Cerf, one of the founders of the publisher Random House, excused himself from a dinner party to watch his favorite television show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
He came away impressed from an early trip to the U.S.S.R., where he said he was “the last Cerf in Russia,” but was a vocal opponent of censorship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Cerf was fun and charismatic, a jokester and bon vivant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
"I'm not sore. Senlis is a good place and we can stay at the Grand Cerf and take a hike in the woods and come home."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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