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Todd announced to the entire party, “but I was so busy watching this broad dress and undress I lost track of the time.” She giggled happily. The other women all glared at Elizabeth Taylor because, in about ten minutes, every man at the party was surrounding Elizabeth Taylor, who is an unbelievably beautiful girl, violet eyed--and vulgar! She's since been polished a bit by Richard Burton.

Well, Art Cohn started to write Mike Todd's biography but didn't live to finish it. He was on the plane with Mike Todd when it crashed. The two of them were killed together, and Cohn's wife finished the book for us.

It was in 1958, too, that we did Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote and also a book that is still very popular called The Proud Possessors by Aline Saarinen, the art editor of The Times and married Saarinen the architect. The Proud Possessors is the story of collectors of art and is a very fine book--a permanent backlist item.

In 1959, we did The Great Impostor by Robert Crighton, the story of a man who posed as a priest and Lord knows what else and escaped detection for years. It was a very successful book. Crighton later wrote The Secret of Santa Vittoria.

You didn't publish that.

That's an interesting story of things that can happen in the publishing business. Bob Crighton is a very decent