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choice and a huge success. Mrs. Hemingway, the widow, about the fourth or fifth Mrs. Hemingway, was outraged and said that the story of her husband's life was her exclusive literary property. This was the most absurd thing in the world. She sued, and of course the case was thrown out successively all the way up to the Supreme Court. She didn't have a leg to stand on. It turned out that a friend of hers named Baker, down at Princeton, was supposed to be doing the Hemingway story with her in on the deal, which explained her mortification when Hotchner beat him to the draw! I still think that the book is in questionable taste. My only defense is that Hemingway did a similar job on Fitzgerald so he had it coming to him!

Do you have your own buyers?

We do. We have one of the best in the business. Mr. Horace Manges his name is. I was the best-man at his wedding. He's one of my closest friends and has been all of my life since college days. When he became my lawyer he found himself more and more involved in book publishing. Not only is he a lawyer for Random House, but he now represents Harper's, Scribner's, Grosset and Dunlap, and the National Publishers Association. I guess that he's the publisher's lawyer and a wonderful man, too.

What's the man...Schwartz?

Well, there are several. Manges is, I guess, the biggest; certainly one of the biggest.