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...John Kieran Jr., 35, son of the original Information Please panel member, who declined an invitation himself. Much as they now want Van Doren to go on, the producers also foresee a chance that audiences may tire of his winning streak. As the Van Doren family's friend, Clifton Fadiman, puts it: "Sooner or later he's going to stop being a Christian and start being a lion...
Mark's family shuttled between a sprawling 18th century farmhouse on 150 acres in Cornwall, Conn, and a house on Greenwich Village's Bleecker Street, where an evening's conversation struck sparks from a roomful of such guests as Carl, Mortimer Adler, Clifton Fadiman, Critic Joseph Wood Krutch, Columnist Franklin P. Adams, Lawyer Morris L. Ernst, Novelist Sinclair Lewis. "We'd be talking along," recalls Fadiman, "and then we'd look up and there would be two little kids in pajamas, hanging over the banister, eavesdropping." Charles's mother would pack...
Charles Van Doren sticks together, in the opinion of Critic Clifton Fadiman, because of his family heritage. "Charlie was brought up to be unconscious of the fact that he has an inferior or superior," says Fadiman. "Because of this, he never starts to press. The Van Dorens represent a tradition of people that is almost dead now, like Thoreau and Emerson. They have their roots in the 19th century. They are content and confident in themselves...
Dyer's 22.3 clipped a tenth of a second off his old record of 22.4 set last year. Following him was his teammate Roger Clifton. The 200-yard butterfly was won by the Crimson's James Stanley, while Dyer and Lind placed first and second in the 100-yard freestyle...
Hammond won the 200-yard breastroke, while Cornell's McCooley set a new Cornell record of 4:59.9 for the 400-yard freestyle. In the 200-yard breastroke, Stanley won over Falk, and Macky, Clifton, Winthrop, and Michener took the 400-yard freestyle relay...