Word: doren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RELATIVES and old friends of Charles Van Doren who have been cheering the new television sensation as he won $122,000 in ten appearances on NBC's quiz show, Twenty One, were suddenly submitted to some intensive quizzing themselves last week. When TIME'S Television & Radio section scheduled a fast cover story on Van Doren, queries went out to reporters all over the U.S., in England and France. Almost overnight back came a flood of reminiscences about Van Doren from poets and philosophers, from former teachers and old classmates, even from his landlady while he was a student...
...look forward to lots more of Disney: last week he signed a $9,000,000 contract to do three filmed series for ABC next season, including another round of Disneyland. For nine weeks millions of viewers suffered through their TV screens with young (30), curl-cropped Charles Lincoln Van Doren as he stood inside one of the soundproof pressure cookers of NBC's game of chance, Twenty-One, and answered a staggering variety of questions ranging from Lincoln to Latin America, from chemistry to comic strips. Last week...
Cliff hanger Van Doren gave his fellow sufferers something special to cheer about -he broke TV's record ($100,000) for big giveaway bonanzas, built his winnings up to $104,500. As a result of it all, Bachelor Van Doren, son of Poet Mark Van Doren,* has become a sort of All-America Ph.D. When he enters his English classroom at Columbia University, his students rise to cheer him. He is being swamped with TV offers and marriage proposals. (A tax expert said he could save $16,000 by getting married this year, and a girl wrote: "I would...
...Heights. There was the vigorous historian, Carleton Hayes, F.J. E. Woodbridge with his "angry impersonations of the world's philosophers," John Dewey with his "bagpipe drone," John Erskine with his "princely introductions to the poets"-as well as a cluster of such talented younger men as Mark Van Doren, Mortimer Adler and Irwin Edman. To help pay his bills, Barzun and some friends ran a "perfectly legal and honest tutoring mill" called Ghosts Inc. "No subjects were barred. If a retired minister came who wanted to read Hamlet in Esperanto (one did), we supplied an instructor who spoke...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, by Carl Van Doren (Viking; $4.95), is a reissue of what is still the best of all books about Benjamin Franklin, a Pulitzer Prize biography that saw Ben plain, as few Americans have been seen by their biographers. Looming over all these, there is Ben Franklin's own Autobiography (available in everything from a 35? Pocket Book to Heritage's $5 edition), which, according to Van Doren, has seen more editions in the U.S. than any book save the Bible...