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Today, its main claim to fame is that it provided its owners, Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the financial underpinnings of a far greater publishing venture, Random House.
If News Quiz were a radio panel show--a sort of What's My Line / I've Got a Secret with Larry Amaros as Bennet Cerf and Beth Sherman as Arlene Francis, or perhaps the other way around, whatever they like--the great advantage (beyond the chance to hear Ananda Gupta being audibly disdainful) would be posing several questions a day.
When I was director of the reference department at Random House, during the 1960s, at meetings held with Bennett Cerf, Donald Klopfer, and Lew Miller, sales director, we often touched on the matter of what the new dictionary, successor to the ACD , was to be called.
And there's Random House founder Bennett Cerf's son, Christopher Cerf, going on network television to advance the defense Macdonald mocked in his 1960 essay "Masscult & Midcult"--that cheap marketing devices like lists are justified if they mean that more people read more books.
The sales director at the time (1965) was Lew Miller, as wise and experienced a marketing man as one could find in publishing; Bob Bernstein was president; Bennett Cerf was chairman of the board, and the other important directors were Donald Klopfer and Tony Wimpfheimer.