Edifice Complex (1946) (Random House????)

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   Random House has an edifice complex?

   11 August 1946, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 130:
   Since that Madison Avenue mansion became Random House, Bennett Cerf has been bivouacking in a suite so spacious that even Mr. Cerf could hide in it--if he ever wanted to hide.  A kind of manorial record is being kept of the cracks that visitors have made on first looking into the building's vast reaches.  George Jean Nathan was the first to make the observation that the publishers obviously have an Edifice Complex.

   18 September 1952, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 27:
   Perhaps, as Bennett Cerf said on another occasion, Mr. Marquand is driven to write by an edifice complex.



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