Hans Keilson, a German-born psychoanalyst who won literary fame at the very end of his long life when two of his long-forgotten works of fiction, set in Nazi-occupied Europe, were republished to great acclaim, died on Tuesday in Hilversum, the Netherlands. He was 101. Dr. Keilson, a physician by training, published his first novel at 23. That book, “Life Goes On,” offered a dark picture of German political life between the wars, reflected in the troubles encountered by Max, a Jewish store owner modeled on Dr. Keilson’s father, a textile merchant. It was banned by the Nazis in 1934.
Two years later Dr. Keilson emigrated to the Netherlands with his future wife, Gertrud Manz. He began a new novel, “The Death of the Adversary,” about a young Jewish man’s experiences in Germany as the Nazis gain a grip on power, but he put the manuscript aside after the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940 forced him to live in hiding in Delft. His experiences provided the material for the novella “Comedy in a Minor Key,” about a Dutch couple who shelter an elderly Jew who dies of natural causes. After disposing of the body carelessly, they too must go into hiding. The novella was published by a German-language Amsterdam press in 1947, the same year Anne Frank’s diary was released. “The Death of the Adversary,” which Dr. Keilson resumed writing after the war, came out in Germany in 1959, and a stilted English translation appeared in 1962. A brief notice in The New York Times described it as a “novel of suspense.” Although the novel sold well and Time magazine named it one of the top 10 books of the year, along with works like Nabokov’s “Pale Fire” and Katherine Anne Porter’s “Ship of Fools,” Dr. Keilson slipped into literary obscurity. He wrote no more fiction, he later said, because he believed that he no longer had an audience.
In 2007 Damion Searls, a literary translator,chanced upon "Comedy in a Minor Key" in an Austrian bookstore's sidewalk bargain bin and mounted a successful campaign to resurrect Dr. Keilson's works. In 2010 Farrar, Straus & Giroux reissued "The Death of the Adversary" which was translated to English by Ivo Jarosy in 1962.Mr. Searls's translation of "Comedy in a Minor Key," was also published in Britain by Hesperus Press. The novelist Francine Prose, in The New York Times Book Review, declared both works masterpieces and their author a genius. “Rarely have such harrowing narratives been related with such wry, off-kilter humor, and in so quiet a whisper,” she wrote. “Read these books and join me in adding him to the list, which each of us must compose on our own, of the world’s very greatest writers.”
After his first novel was banned, his publisher, Samuel Fischer, told him to leave Germany as quickly as possible. His future wife, a graphologist, had also sensed impending disaster. After Dr. Keilson showed her a sample of Hitler’s handwriting in 1935, she said, “He’s going to set the world on fire.”
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Chalmers Johnson
Chalmers Johnson, an Asian studies scholar who stirred controversy with books contending that the United States was trying to create a global empire and was paying a stiff price for it, died Saturday at his home in Cardiff-by-the Sea, Calif. He was 79.
Trying to? Who doubts it? Well, other than Karl Rove, Fox-nuts and the extreme rightwingers?
Dr. Johnson, who considered himself a longtime cold warrior, was a consultant to the Central Intelligence Agency for many years. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union he became concerned that the United States was increasingly using its military presence to gain power over the global economy.
That would make it George HW Bush's and Bill Clinton's presidencies.
Summarizing the series in “Dismantling the Empire,” Dr. Johnson said that “blowback” means more than a negative, sometimes violent reaction to United States policy. “It refers to retaliation for the numerous illegal operations we have carried out abroad that were kept totally secret from the American public,” he wrote. “This means that when the retaliation comes, as it did so spectacularly on Sept. 11, 2001, the American public is unable to put the events in context. So they tend to support acts intended to lash out against the perpetrators, thereby most commonly preparing the ground for yet another cycle of blowback.”
Not because they hate our way of life.
His 1982 book, “MITI and the Japanese Miracle” (MITI stands for the Ministry of International Trade and Industry), challenged conventional wisdom with its premise that Japan was a “capitalist developmental state” that combined government industrial strategy with free-market forces. His ideas contradicted those of economists who insisted that Japan’s economic rise was almost entirely based on the free market. The heavily state-influenced economic model that Dr. Johnson elucidated can now be seen in South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and China. “This,” Dr. Keehn said, “is how you can have a contradiction that the world’s last remaining powerful Communist country is also the world’s greatest rising capitalist success.”
Trying to? Who doubts it? Well, other than Karl Rove, Fox-nuts and the extreme rightwingers?
Dr. Johnson, who considered himself a longtime cold warrior, was a consultant to the Central Intelligence Agency for many years. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union he became concerned that the United States was increasingly using its military presence to gain power over the global economy.
That would make it George HW Bush's and Bill Clinton's presidencies.
Summarizing the series in “Dismantling the Empire,” Dr. Johnson said that “blowback” means more than a negative, sometimes violent reaction to United States policy. “It refers to retaliation for the numerous illegal operations we have carried out abroad that were kept totally secret from the American public,” he wrote. “This means that when the retaliation comes, as it did so spectacularly on Sept. 11, 2001, the American public is unable to put the events in context. So they tend to support acts intended to lash out against the perpetrators, thereby most commonly preparing the ground for yet another cycle of blowback.”
Not because they hate our way of life.
His 1982 book, “MITI and the Japanese Miracle” (MITI stands for the Ministry of International Trade and Industry), challenged conventional wisdom with its premise that Japan was a “capitalist developmental state” that combined government industrial strategy with free-market forces. His ideas contradicted those of economists who insisted that Japan’s economic rise was almost entirely based on the free market. The heavily state-influenced economic model that Dr. Johnson elucidated can now be seen in South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and China. “This,” Dr. Keehn said, “is how you can have a contradiction that the world’s last remaining powerful Communist country is also the world’s greatest rising capitalist success.”
Thursday, April 29, 2010
A different kind of environmentalist
Characters of this sort are no longer around, nor possible, alas.
With a cattleman's regard for water, Floyd Dominy ran some of the federal Bureau of Reclamation's biggest dam projects, including the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. Mr. Dominy, who died April 20 at age 100, was reviled by environmentalists, who criticized his irrigation and power-generating projects for destroying pristine habitats and flooding scenic canyons. But Mr. Dominy, whose personality was as imposing and audacious as his projects, was proud of the dams his agency built.
"I'm a different kind of environmentalist," he told High Country News in 2000. "I believe that nature can be improved upon." Mr. Dominy said his critics, organizations like the Sierra Club, were elitist. At Glen Canyon in Arizona, Mr. Dominy oversaw construction of the second-largest dam on the Colorado. The dam, which opened in 1966, became a major source of power. It also created Lake Powell, a reservoir and tourist destination that attracts millions of boaters and hikers annually.
He called Lake Powell "my crowning jewel" and had the Bureau of Reclamation publish a pamphlet celebrating how it made the wilderness accessible to tourists. "Dear God," he wrote in the pamphlet. "Did you cast down two hundred miles of canyon and mark: 'For poets only?' Multitudes hunger for a lake in the sun."
Raised on a struggling Nebraska cattle farm that lacked electricity and running water, Mr. Dominy left home at age 17. He studied economics at the University of Wyoming, graduating in 1932, and was then appointed the agricultural agent for Campbell County, Wyo. He administered a federal cattle-culling program during the Dust Bowl that involved paying $8 a head for ailing cows and shooting them on the spot. He also worked on his first small-scale water projects, helping ranchers build rolled-earth dams and ponds.
He said he often worked in defiance of regulations requiring that Forest Service rangers inspect sites first. "I took it upon myself to ignore these pettifogging minutiae," he told author John McPhee.
Mr. Dominy's skill at negotiating bureaucracy spurred a quick rise at the Bureau of Reclamation, which he joined in 1946 and where he became commissioner in 1959. Among his most prominent projects were Flaming Gorge Dam and Reservoir on the Green River in Utah, the Navajo Dams on the Colorado River Storage Project in New Mexico, and Trinity Dam in California. A big player on Capitol Hill, Mr. Dominy survived in his post until 1969, when the Nixon administration asked him to leave in a housecleaning. According to Mark Reiser's "Cadillac Desert," the emissary sent to ask for his resignation was none other than James Watt, who in the Reagan administration would become Mr. Dominy's rival as the chief bugaboo of the environmentalists.
Mr. McPhee, in his 1971 book "Encounters with the Archdruid," floated down the Colorado River with Mr. Dominy and with the Sierra Club's David Brower. The two ideological opponents had a jolly time of it in Mr. McPhee's telling, alternating beer and barbs. At one point, Mr. McPhee wrote, Mr. Dominy shot a rough, 300-yard stretch of rapids in the Grand Canyon. "From top to bottom, through it all, Dominy kept his cigar aglow."
Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A7
With a cattleman's regard for water, Floyd Dominy ran some of the federal Bureau of Reclamation's biggest dam projects, including the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. Mr. Dominy, who died April 20 at age 100, was reviled by environmentalists, who criticized his irrigation and power-generating projects for destroying pristine habitats and flooding scenic canyons. But Mr. Dominy, whose personality was as imposing and audacious as his projects, was proud of the dams his agency built.
"I'm a different kind of environmentalist," he told High Country News in 2000. "I believe that nature can be improved upon." Mr. Dominy said his critics, organizations like the Sierra Club, were elitist. At Glen Canyon in Arizona, Mr. Dominy oversaw construction of the second-largest dam on the Colorado. The dam, which opened in 1966, became a major source of power. It also created Lake Powell, a reservoir and tourist destination that attracts millions of boaters and hikers annually.
He called Lake Powell "my crowning jewel" and had the Bureau of Reclamation publish a pamphlet celebrating how it made the wilderness accessible to tourists. "Dear God," he wrote in the pamphlet. "Did you cast down two hundred miles of canyon and mark: 'For poets only?' Multitudes hunger for a lake in the sun."
Raised on a struggling Nebraska cattle farm that lacked electricity and running water, Mr. Dominy left home at age 17. He studied economics at the University of Wyoming, graduating in 1932, and was then appointed the agricultural agent for Campbell County, Wyo. He administered a federal cattle-culling program during the Dust Bowl that involved paying $8 a head for ailing cows and shooting them on the spot. He also worked on his first small-scale water projects, helping ranchers build rolled-earth dams and ponds.
He said he often worked in defiance of regulations requiring that Forest Service rangers inspect sites first. "I took it upon myself to ignore these pettifogging minutiae," he told author John McPhee.
REMEMBRANCES APRIL 29, 2010: FLOYD DOMINY 1910-2010
Builder Remapped Rivers Across West - By STEPHEN MILLER
Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A7
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Crock-Pot chef fed slow-cook craze
George De Gennaro Studios/HP Books
This obituary has a phrase worthy of comparison to a good British phrase. An unexpected best-seller, "Crockery Cookery" dethroned "The Joy of Sex" as the No. 1 selling trade paperback in June of 1975, providing a clue as to which is the stronger human urge.
Mable Hoffman 1921-2010 - Crock-Pot Chef Fed Slow-Cook Craze
By STEPHEN MILLER
Hitching her wagon to the nascent slow-cooking craze, Mable Hoffman created one of the fastest-selling cookbooks.
Ms. Hoffman, who died Feb. 9 at 88, was author of "Crockery Cookery," an early entry among books of recipes for an old technique transformed.
Crock-Pots debuted in 1971 and sold in the millions, spurred in part by the increase in working women who wanted to present a fresh-cooked meal when they came home in the evening. But conventional stew recipes turned to mush or solidified because meats and vegetables acted differently when cooked for long periods at low temperatures.
"The cookbooks that came with the Crock-Pots did not work," says Howard Fisher, an editor at HP Books who hired Ms. Hoffman to provide answers.
A home economist and food stylist, Ms. Hoffman had experience developing recipes for another emerging kitchen labor-saver, the microwave oven. She was soon cooking up a storm with 20 or more slow cookers bubbling around the clock.
"There was dinner ready every night, but some of those pots you really didn't want to eat from," says Ms. Hoffman's daughter, Jan Robertson, who pitched in to help with the culinary explorations.
"Crockery Cookery" presented more than 250 recipes for solid middle-American fare, such as pot roast and "squash medley," but also more exotic fare including baked beans cassoulet and fresh pears in wine. Some critics have derided slow cookers for encouraging "dump cooking," but most contemporary reviews hailed the book for extolling inexpensive and convenient food.
An unexpected best-seller, "Crockery Cookery" dethroned "The Joy of Sex" as the No. 1 selling trade paperback in June of 1975, providing a clue as to which is the stronger human urge. More than six million copies have been sold in several editions, says Mr. Fisher.
Ms. Hoffman was born in Virginia, the daughter of a postman and his wife, a superior Southern cook. She majored in home economics at the University of Maryland. She had a stint writing marketing reports for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She later moved to California and consulted as a recipe developer for Sunkist Growers and Hunt Foods, and as a food stylist for publications such as Better Homes and Gardens magazine.
Ms. Hoffman followed "Crockery Cookery" with a dozen more cookbooks, some elaborating on slow-cooking and others dealing with chocolate, ice cream, pasta and entertaining. Her husband, Gar Hoffman, a civilian Navy employee, was her co-author on several books, helping with research and production. The Hoffmans traveled the country doing cooking demonstrations and television appearances.
A voluble hostess who never tired of extolling the advantages of slow cooking, Ms. Hoffman liked food. A San Diego Union-Tribune interviewer who dropped by her kitchen in 1985, when Ms. Hoffman was promoting, "Make-Ahead Entertaining," noted that she served coffee with dainty napkins that said, "Skinny cooks can't be trusted."
March 5, 2010
Mable Hoffman 1921-2010 - Crock-Pot Chef Fed Slow-Cook Craze
By STEPHEN MILLER
Hitching her wagon to the nascent slow-cooking craze, Mable Hoffman created one of the fastest-selling cookbooks.
Ms. Hoffman, who died Feb. 9 at 88, was author of "Crockery Cookery," an early entry among books of recipes for an old technique transformed.
Crock-Pots debuted in 1971 and sold in the millions, spurred in part by the increase in working women who wanted to present a fresh-cooked meal when they came home in the evening. But conventional stew recipes turned to mush or solidified because meats and vegetables acted differently when cooked for long periods at low temperatures.
"The cookbooks that came with the Crock-Pots did not work," says Howard Fisher, an editor at HP Books who hired Ms. Hoffman to provide answers.
A home economist and food stylist, Ms. Hoffman had experience developing recipes for another emerging kitchen labor-saver, the microwave oven. She was soon cooking up a storm with 20 or more slow cookers bubbling around the clock.
"There was dinner ready every night, but some of those pots you really didn't want to eat from," says Ms. Hoffman's daughter, Jan Robertson, who pitched in to help with the culinary explorations.
"Crockery Cookery" presented more than 250 recipes for solid middle-American fare, such as pot roast and "squash medley," but also more exotic fare including baked beans cassoulet and fresh pears in wine. Some critics have derided slow cookers for encouraging "dump cooking," but most contemporary reviews hailed the book for extolling inexpensive and convenient food.
An unexpected best-seller, "Crockery Cookery" dethroned "The Joy of Sex" as the No. 1 selling trade paperback in June of 1975, providing a clue as to which is the stronger human urge. More than six million copies have been sold in several editions, says Mr. Fisher.
Ms. Hoffman was born in Virginia, the daughter of a postman and his wife, a superior Southern cook. She majored in home economics at the University of Maryland. She had a stint writing marketing reports for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She later moved to California and consulted as a recipe developer for Sunkist Growers and Hunt Foods, and as a food stylist for publications such as Better Homes and Gardens magazine.
Ms. Hoffman followed "Crockery Cookery" with a dozen more cookbooks, some elaborating on slow-cooking and others dealing with chocolate, ice cream, pasta and entertaining. Her husband, Gar Hoffman, a civilian Navy employee, was her co-author on several books, helping with research and production. The Hoffmans traveled the country doing cooking demonstrations and television appearances.
A voluble hostess who never tired of extolling the advantages of slow cooking, Ms. Hoffman liked food. A San Diego Union-Tribune interviewer who dropped by her kitchen in 1985, when Ms. Hoffman was promoting, "Make-Ahead Entertaining," noted that she served coffee with dainty napkins that said, "Skinny cooks can't be trusted."
March 5, 2010
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Influential Publisher
February 16, 2009
Alfred A. Knopf Jr., Influential Publisher, Dies at 90
By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT
Alfred A. Knopf Jr., who left the noted publishing house run by his parents to become one of the founders of Atheneum Publishers in 1959, died on Saturday. He was 90, the last of the surviving founders, and lived in New York City. The cause of death was complications following a fall, his wife, Alice, said.
The only child of the publishing giants Alfred A. and Blanche Wolf Knopf, Pat Knopf, as he was called, worked at his parents’ company, concentrating mainly on sales and marketing, when he approached his father about hiring the editor Simon Michael Bessie as the Knopfs’ eventual successor. Mr. Bessie had recently been passed over for the position of editor in chief at Harper & Row in favor of Evan Thomas.
When his father refused, blaming his mother’s resistance (she apparently didn’t like Mr. Bessie), Mr. Knopf said in an interview in 2005, Mr. Knopf (pronounced with a hard “k”) decided to join Mr. Bessie and Hiram Haydn, an editor at Bobbs-Merrill, in founding Atheneum. They lined up four backers, each willing to put up $250,000, and established their offices in a four-story brownstone on East 38th Street. Cornelia Schaeffer, who would later become Mr. Bessie’s wife, joined the house as an editor about a year after its founding.
Atheneum got lucky fast. Its first three lists produced three No. 1 best sellers: “The Last of the Just” (1960), a novel about the Holocaust by André Schwarz-Bart; “The Making of the President, 1960” (1961), the first in Theodore H. White’s series on presidential campaigns; and “The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait” (1962) by Frederic Morton. These books were acquired by Mr. Bessie, although by informal understanding each of the founders had to agree on every book the house published.
Other projects, if not best sellers, also did well for the house. The first list included Jan de Hartog’s crime novel “The Inspector,” Wright Morris’s “Ceremony in Lone Tree” and William Goldman’s “Soldier in the Rain.” Atheneum later published Edward Albee’s play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (1962), which sold more than 70,000 copies in hard- and softcover editions. On the other hand, having published Mario Puzo’s second novel, “The Fortunate Pilgrim” (1965), the house turned down “The Godfather” (published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons in 1969). Mr. Haydn thought it “junk,” Mr. Knopf said.
Alfred A. Knopf Jr. in 1978; in 1959, a brownstone bookman.
Although the founders called on their backers for what Mr. Knopf said was almost a second million, in part to start up a children’s book division in 1964, Atheneum prospered, and the three founders were able to exercise options to buy the company’s stock. “We had good lawyers,” Mr. Knopf later commented in an interview. “Everybody, including the original backers, was very happy.”
In the 1970s, economic conditions began to make it harder for independent publishers to stay afloat. After selling 10 percent of the company to Raytheon, the electronics conglomerate, Atheneum in 1978 merged with Charles Scribner’s Sons, another independent house, to form a third entity, Scribner Book Companies, of which Charles Scribner Jr. became chairman and Mr. Knopf vice chairman, although both houses continued to operate independently. Mr. Haydn and Mr. Bessie had both left Atheneum by then.
In 1984, Scribner Book Companies was acquired by Macmillan Inc., and Mr. Knopf assumed responsibility for all adult books put out by Scribner’s houses. He continued as a senior vice president of Macmillan until his retirement in 1988.
Mr. Knopf was born in White Plains, N.Y., on June 17, 1918. At 7 he was sent to boarding school, first at the Riverdale Country Day School, in the Bronx, then from 1933 until 1937 at Phillips Exeter Academy. The summer after he graduated from Exeter, according to a 1959 story in Time magazine, he ran away from home, despondent over being turned down by Princeton and determined (he said in a note) not to return until he made good. Following a police search, he was found in Salt Lake City, “barefoot, hungry and broke.”
After attending Union College for three years, he was inspired by the Veronica Lake film “I Wanted Wings” to join the United States Army Air Force, which called him up in December 1941. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his work in the 446th Bomb Group in the Eighth Air Force, rising to the rank of captain. (Union awarded him a B.A. in 1945.)
When he was discharged, he telephoned his father, who asked what he planned to do for a career. “I guess I’m going to work for you,” he said, and did. In 1952, he married Alice Laine. They had three children, Alison Insinger and Susan Knopf of New York and David A. Knopf of San Francisco.
Alfred A. Knopf Jr., Influential Publisher, Dies at 90
By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT
Alfred A. Knopf Jr., who left the noted publishing house run by his parents to become one of the founders of Atheneum Publishers in 1959, died on Saturday. He was 90, the last of the surviving founders, and lived in New York City. The cause of death was complications following a fall, his wife, Alice, said.
The only child of the publishing giants Alfred A. and Blanche Wolf Knopf, Pat Knopf, as he was called, worked at his parents’ company, concentrating mainly on sales and marketing, when he approached his father about hiring the editor Simon Michael Bessie as the Knopfs’ eventual successor. Mr. Bessie had recently been passed over for the position of editor in chief at Harper & Row in favor of Evan Thomas.
When his father refused, blaming his mother’s resistance (she apparently didn’t like Mr. Bessie), Mr. Knopf said in an interview in 2005, Mr. Knopf (pronounced with a hard “k”) decided to join Mr. Bessie and Hiram Haydn, an editor at Bobbs-Merrill, in founding Atheneum. They lined up four backers, each willing to put up $250,000, and established their offices in a four-story brownstone on East 38th Street. Cornelia Schaeffer, who would later become Mr. Bessie’s wife, joined the house as an editor about a year after its founding.
Atheneum got lucky fast. Its first three lists produced three No. 1 best sellers: “The Last of the Just” (1960), a novel about the Holocaust by André Schwarz-Bart; “The Making of the President, 1960” (1961), the first in Theodore H. White’s series on presidential campaigns; and “The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait” (1962) by Frederic Morton. These books were acquired by Mr. Bessie, although by informal understanding each of the founders had to agree on every book the house published.
Other projects, if not best sellers, also did well for the house. The first list included Jan de Hartog’s crime novel “The Inspector,” Wright Morris’s “Ceremony in Lone Tree” and William Goldman’s “Soldier in the Rain.” Atheneum later published Edward Albee’s play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (1962), which sold more than 70,000 copies in hard- and softcover editions. On the other hand, having published Mario Puzo’s second novel, “The Fortunate Pilgrim” (1965), the house turned down “The Godfather” (published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons in 1969). Mr. Haydn thought it “junk,” Mr. Knopf said.Alfred A. Knopf Jr. in 1978; in 1959, a brownstone bookman.
Although the founders called on their backers for what Mr. Knopf said was almost a second million, in part to start up a children’s book division in 1964, Atheneum prospered, and the three founders were able to exercise options to buy the company’s stock. “We had good lawyers,” Mr. Knopf later commented in an interview. “Everybody, including the original backers, was very happy.”
In the 1970s, economic conditions began to make it harder for independent publishers to stay afloat. After selling 10 percent of the company to Raytheon, the electronics conglomerate, Atheneum in 1978 merged with Charles Scribner’s Sons, another independent house, to form a third entity, Scribner Book Companies, of which Charles Scribner Jr. became chairman and Mr. Knopf vice chairman, although both houses continued to operate independently. Mr. Haydn and Mr. Bessie had both left Atheneum by then.
In 1984, Scribner Book Companies was acquired by Macmillan Inc., and Mr. Knopf assumed responsibility for all adult books put out by Scribner’s houses. He continued as a senior vice president of Macmillan until his retirement in 1988.
Mr. Knopf was born in White Plains, N.Y., on June 17, 1918. At 7 he was sent to boarding school, first at the Riverdale Country Day School, in the Bronx, then from 1933 until 1937 at Phillips Exeter Academy. The summer after he graduated from Exeter, according to a 1959 story in Time magazine, he ran away from home, despondent over being turned down by Princeton and determined (he said in a note) not to return until he made good. Following a police search, he was found in Salt Lake City, “barefoot, hungry and broke.”
After attending Union College for three years, he was inspired by the Veronica Lake film “I Wanted Wings” to join the United States Army Air Force, which called him up in December 1941. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his work in the 446th Bomb Group in the Eighth Air Force, rising to the rank of captain. (Union awarded him a B.A. in 1945.)
When he was discharged, he telephoned his father, who asked what he planned to do for a career. “I guess I’m going to work for you,” he said, and did. In 1952, he married Alice Laine. They had three children, Alison Insinger and Susan Knopf of New York and David A. Knopf of San Francisco.
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