Vinton Cerf is the most elegant man in the office. He wears an impeccable three-piece wool suit and proudly displays gold cufflinks, which depict the solar system. At 82, he looks like a character ...

Bennett A. Cerf, president of the publishing firm of Random House, and more widely known, perhaps, as the country’s most indefatigable disseminator of printed jokes (his chief vehicles have been ten ...

These words were spoken with the confidence of a man who knows he is the subject of an Esquire feature. His photo catches him mid-laugh, brown eyes squinting behind horn-rimmed glasses, ...

The Python extension will automatically install the following extensions by default to provide the best Python development experience in VS Code: If you set this setting to true, you will manually opt ...

(SEE COVER) And now, panel, for the mystery guest. Masks in place? Good. He is salaried. He works for a profit-making organization. He deals in a product. It is smaller than a breadbox. On the side, ...

An accurate diagnosis of this ailment is essential, as its manifestations are often wrongly attributed to lymphedema or simple overweight. Some of the most common indicators include persistent ...

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. His hosts, the writer Robert Penn ...

It was “arguably the most successful rescue mission in American literary history,” writes Gerald Howard in “The Insider,” his lively biography of Cowley. It “would reverse Faulkner’s drift into ...

Michael Jensen joined the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan in 2004, where he helped establish one of the first country-based pooled funds. Today, he leads the ...

In 1925, two young men, Bennett A. Cerf and his lifelong business partner Donald S. Klopfer, bought the Modern Library reprint series from Horace Liveright and set up shop. At the end of 1926, they ...

In Nothing Random, the former PW contributing editor chronicles the life of Random House cofounder Bennett Cerf. What drew you to Bennett Cerf? I discovered that there was this huge Random House ...

A few weeks ago, I experienced a classic annoyance of modern life: one of my computer games stopped working. The cause? An “update” to the emulator that translates old games into programs that today’s ...