Word: doren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kaleidoscope (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Charles Van Doren, in his first big chore since he reached his TV majority (over Twenty One), does the narration for a documentary on the American Indian...
...week is: Which of the quiz shows are rigged? From unquestionably crooked Dotto (TIME, Sept. 1), ruined by the revelations of a part-time butler, actor and near-professional quiz contestant named Edward Hilgemeier Jr., suspicion last week spread to the biggest of all, that hallowed battleground of Van Doren and Von Nardroff, NBC's Twenty...
...establish the facts." Herbert Stempel, 31, one of the show's earliest big-money winners ($49,000), claimed to be doing just that. He was hardly a confidence-inspiring witness. He seemed bent on destroying the reputations of everyone connected with the show, admitted bitterly envying Charles Van Doren, the man who defeated him. ("I took my wife to the theater one night, and I overheard somebody saying, 'That's the guy who was beat by Charles Van Doren.' It hurt me egotistically.") The very mention of Producer Enright seemed to choke Herb with bile...
...France. See, that's the trend now: a big winner will have to flub the easy ones to make the American public look good." Eventually, said Herb, Enright told him, "We've reached a plateau. We need a new face." Herb was forced to lose to Van Doren-and that tore...
With school out, a scholarly, wide-eyed NBC trainee was down in Washington rubbing notebooks with the swift, sure newshands on the White House beat. The apprentice: TV Quiz Winner ($129,000) and Columbia University Instructor Charles Van Doren. His first report: "It's a little frightening...