Word: doren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While undergoing his recent $129,000 ordeal by question, TV Quiz Whiz Charles Van Doren (TIME, Feb. 11) hired comely Geraldine Ann Bernstein, 23, away from London Records, Inc. to be his secretary. At that time, Geraldine, a New York University English major, was earning $4,160 annually v. Van Doren's $4,400 a year as an English instructor at Columbia. Together, they answered thousands of fan letters (mostly handout entreaties) that swamped Van Doren. Along the way, the couple chivalrously rejected a passel of outright marriage proposals. Another proposal-made by Van Doren himself-was accepted...
...garbled message received by Pulitzer Prizewinning Poet Mark Van Doren's parents when he married Charles's mother, Writer Dorothy Graffe, in 1922. Last week, however, the telegraph company suggested, helpfully, that Charlie might have meant "married...
...great bellwether markets." Aiming to operate above and beyond the ratings rat race. Pat Weaver, anxious to "enlighten and enrich," will soon start sending out signals to "all the mad scientists in the entertainment and information fields to start brewing their heady brews." Meanwhile, Quiz Whiz Charles Van Doren signed an exclusive five-year contract with NBC at a salary "close to $50,000 a year." Though a programing consultant, and possibly a panelist on a new fall show, Van Doren will also keep plugging in his $4,400-a-year teaching job at Columbia University...
LINCOLN'S COMMANDO, by Ralph J. Roske and Charles Van Doren (3 1 0 pp.; Harper; $4.50), is notable as the work of Adult Quiz Kid Van Doren (TIME, Feb. 11, et seq.), a cerebral type who chose as his subject a man of flamboyant contrast. The man: Commander Will Cushing, U.S.N., whose raids up and down the Confederate-held coasts during the second half of the Civil War were the despair of Rebel defenders. Cushing was young and handsome, a braggart as well as an incredibly brave man. His superiors feared his escapades nearly as much...
...thousand years ago, Cato Major, musing on the problem of inhuman courage, said: "There is a difference between a man's prizing valor at a great rate, and valuing life at little." In their book, Coauthors Van Doren and Roske (a Civil War historian) are similarly bemused by Will Cushing's reckless bravery. They contrast it with the more measured courage of his brother Alonzo, a man who knew fear and hated war, yet died bravely at Gettysburg. Like many another hero, Will Cushing found it hard to adjust to peace. His final escapade in Cuba came close...