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democracy. Frei is really a man comparable to Franklin D. Roosevelt in this country. It was a fine book and got fine reviews. I looked up our sale yesterday. In four months, we have sold 1,331 copies. You sell that many in about ten minutes with a book by Rod McKuen. It's shocking.

South America. I don't know why we're so apathetic about it in the U.S.A.

You have to go there. We took a trip down there a couple of years ago, which I think I told you about. Rio is about as beautiful a city as there is in the world. We found it entrancing.

In 1962 we added another important author to our list. That was Philip Roth, whose Goodbye, Columbus had made him famous. The first book that we did was a book called Letting Go. We've just done this year a book called When She Was Good. He is another addition to the Random House list, another reason why we think that we've got most of the great young authors. He's bound to be at the very top before long.

In the fall of 1962 we had a lot of fun with a volume called Beat the Dealer by Ed Thorpe. This is a book that tells you how you can beat the game of twenty-one or blackjack. There is a brilliant professor who actually found a way of beating twenty-one. It's so accurate that the rules were changed in Las Vegas. Furthermore, Ed Thorpe is not