Word: doren
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Your Feb. 11 story on Charles Van Doren and the Van Doren family is the most fascinating thing I've read in many a day. The private and public personality of Charles is tops. And so is your splendid article...
...Doren makes the right choice about his future in relation to his many TV offers, he might be able to convince some of us TV viewers that the acquisition of knowledge is a more rewarding and meaningful experience than spending 90% of our leisure time on our fat fannies being entertained by a large order of nothingness...
Charles Van Doren's unprecedented quiz-winning streak -(TIME, Feb. 11) last week brought him another $16,000 in the Monday night game of Twenty One. Grand total: $138,000. As always, the lanky Columbia English instructor, just turned 31, put himself-and his audience -through the wringer to get his answers. But out they came in time's nick to give him two perfect 21 scores against Challengers John Kieran Jr., 35, son of the Information Please expert, and Dr. Hall Griffith, 57, a writer. The wringer produced stunning oddments of knowledge, e.g., the members of George...
...quiz business two challengers confronted Van Doren. Eleven-year-old Leonard Ross of Tujunga, Calif., an astoundingly precocious know-it-all about the stock market, moved ahead of Van Doren as a money winner by adding the jackpot of The $64,000 Challenge to his take of $100,000 from The Big Surprise. And CBS's I Love Lucy, which NBC hopes to jar out of its five-year supremacy, still kept a narrow lead of five Trendex rating points over Twenty One. But as Van Doren turned down movie offers and sweated out his weekly decision whether...
...seniors of Northwestern University decided upon a new kind of senior-class gift for their alma mater: a plan to raise $4,000 to boost faculty salaries during the coming year. Wrote Class President Walter W. Doren in the Daily Northwestern: "The campuses of America are filled with benches, gates, clocks and similar senior-class gifts which have little or nothing to do with higher education's actual needs. Our class does not want to memorialize itself with a plaque. We wish instead to make a meaningful contribution to tomorrow...