INFORMATION PLEASE

“Walking Encyclopedia” is the term that had become associated with Clifton Fadiman’s board of experts. A literary editor of The New Yorker magazine, Fadiman queried three of the country’s best-informed people” Franklin P. Adams, better known as F.P.A., noted author and columnist whose “Conning Tower” was a feature of the New York Post; John Kieran, Sports Editor of The New York Times, but whose interests were widespread judging by the steady stream of knowledge, which poured from him like tap water; and Oscar Levant, who shined at the questions devoted to music, but was an authority on other subjects as well as being an outstanding composer, arranger and director. Dan Golenpaul was the genius behind the program’s success, an idea man who shared a wealth of knowledge with radio listeners. When he first conceived the idea of the Information, Please radio program, he was very down on his luck. He hunted up the wittiest, most literate men he could find for his “experts” and quizzer — a rev