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sold it at all. Authors can sometimes over-reach themselves! But The Enemy Camp was a Book-of-the-Month Club choice. We were very happy to have him on our list.

Well, you still have him, don't you?

You bet! There's a new book that he's just finished. Its main characters will be familiar to people who know the inside history of Simon and Schuster, where Jerry worked for a little while. It's thinly disguised, but people who know some of the idiosyncrasies of Dick Simon and Max Schuster will recognize them.

Also in October, 1958, we published a book that had given me a lot of pleasure long before it was finished. It was called The Nine Lives of Michael Todd, by a man named Art Cohn. Mike Todd was a fascinating character, very much like Billy Rose. He was a fraud in many ways--basically one of the most dishonest men in the world. But, where Billy Rose was a mean fellow, Mike Todd had great charm. He was great fun to know. Of course his last romance and marriage was to Elizabeth Taylor. I'll never forget one night inviting them to a party at our home. It was given in honor of David Niven, as I remember, who had been on our “What's My Line?" panel that evening. Mike Todd and Elizabeth Taylor arrived quite late; and, whereas everybody else was in black tie, Mike Todd had on a sports shirt and Elizabeth Taylor was dressed in rough tweeds. “We're terribly late,”