David Susskind sometimes irritates people. His manneron his TV discussion program Open Endhas a kind of aggressive omniscience whether he is talking about alcoholism or politics. But he attracts top-level guests from all fields, and his program has a high and merited national popularity. By last week, however, he had irritated one man too many times. Tired of fighting with Susskind over the weekly choice of subjects and guests, Bennet Kornpresident of Metropolitan Broadcasting's WNEW-TV, where Open End originatesfired him.
"This flibbertygibbet Korn is a real creep," says Susskind, "a squingy little man, a cultural...
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