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...appeal that Groucho generates singlehanded is most nearly duplicated by CBS's What's My Line?, which also comes alive more through its star personalities (John Daly, Arlene Francis, Steve Allen, Bennett Cerf, Dorothy Kilgallen) than through its intellectual teasing. It has spawned a great many imitators, ranging from I've Got a Secret, whose panelists have to guess secrets that contestants eagerly share with several million televiewers, to self-explanatory shows like The Name's the Same and Who Said That...
...expose. Author Reynolds announced candidly that he had been "duped" by the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated." Reader's Digest Editor DeWitt Wallace was equally stunned, explained that the Digest would confess its error in its January issue. "This mistake," said Random House's President Bennett Cerf, "is a beaut...
Last week, after the Herald's expose, DuPre was "in a state of collapse" and "under doctor's care." Said Author Reynolds: "I am shocked and sad and very sorry for George." Random House Publisher Cerf took a more commercial view: this week he offered to refund the price of the book to anyone who wanted it, and suggested to bookstores all over the U.S. that they move the book from the "nonfiction" display shelves to the "fiction" section where it belongs...
While filling in for Columnist Bennett Cerf in the Saturday Review, Novelist Laura (Gentleman's Agreement) Hobson discovered that she "adored having a column." Writer Hobson confessed her new passion to the editor of Hearst's Good Housekeeping, who signed her to do nine columns a year. When Columnist Inez Robb of Hearst's International News Service left, by mutual consent, to join Scripps-Howard and United Feature syndicate a fortnight ago, I.N.S. knew just where to turn. Beginning next week, Laura Hobson will do five columns a week for I.N.S. and its clients, titled "Assignment America...
Robert W. Boyd Jr., Edward O. Cerf, Thomas Griffith...