Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office of New York County's District Attorney Frank Hogan, a tape machine whirred for 55 minutes. The unwinding spool was supposed to offer proof that Herbert Stempel, onetime Twenty One contestant, was lying when he accused Producer Dan Enright of feeding him answers in advance (TIME, Sept. 8). The tape brought no such conclusive evidence. Instead, it did something that was possibly more important. It offered a fascinating look behind the gleaming isolation booths and the golden M.C. grins into a back room of greed, craftiness and weird emotions...
...line-up of suspects when a Tennessee minister announced that the toughest part of a four-ply question had been slipped to him at a preshow "briefing session." But the week's real drama was played out on the tape in the D.A.'s office. Leading character: Dan Enright (real name: Daniel Ehrenreich), 41, who rose from New York City's schools via radio engineering jobs and the Signal Corps into the dazzling giveaway world...
Acting School. After applying for a spot on the show in the fall of 1956, Stempel, then a C.C.N.Y. student, took a general information test, and did remarkably well. One night Producer Enright went to Herb's apartment and gave him another verbal exam. "Then," says Herb, "Dan leaned back and said, 'How'd you like to win a lot of money?' I said, 'Well, sure.' 'Look,' he said, 'kid, play ball with...
...told him to get a "whitewall" marine-style haircut, and selected a worn-out suit and tie for him to complete the picture of the penniless G.I. He coached him in grimace and gesture, taught him how to "think" violently in the TV isolation booth ("I call it the Dan Enright school of acting"). All his questions, said Herb, were fed to him in advance by Enright...
Ready Answers. Dapper Dan Enright had a ready answer: Stempel's story had long since been proved false. Stempel had indeed tried to peddle his story to the New York Post and the Journal-American more than a year ago, and neither paper had been sufficiently convinced to print it. He had also signed a "confession" for Enright, stating that his charges had been false. But last week, when Stempel repeated his fraud story to the district attorney, the World-Telegram & Sun and the Journal published it-and were promptly sued for libel by Barry & Enright Productions...