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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.
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.
As Scribner authors, neither of us is likely to find much favor in a list of books sold by Mr. Cerf.
Gone is the time when one might make a reasonably accurate guess at a person's race or nationality by his name; today, when blacks who do not adopt Arabic names or names like Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones might be named Kelly or Murphy, Jews born as Greenberg change their name to Monteverdi or Vermont, Hirsch to Cerf, and so forth, and people with Slavic and Italian names either change its spelling in an attempt to get people to pronounce it as closely as possible to the original (e.g.
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.