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Born. To Charles Van Doren, 32, Columbia University English instructor, first Croesus (TIME, Feb. 11, 1957) of TV's gilt quiz show Twenty One, and Geraldine Ann Bernstein Van Doren, 24: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Elizabeth. Weight...
...seeing her own worried reflection), answered a stickler on 18th century English history.* With that, Elfrida reached 21 points, won the game, and 1) pushed her winnings to $146,000 to become the new alltime female quiz champion, 2) broke the Twenty One record of Quiz Wizard Charles Van Doren (TIME, Feb. 11, 1957), who reached a high of $143,000 before slipping back to a $129,000 final take-home...
...nervous type, Sahl talked himself right out of two TV contracts by tactlessly placed sallies, offended network brass by opening one NBC spot with: "Well, kids, if we're good today, General Sarnoff might like us, and if he likes us he'll go to Charles Van Doren and get us more money...
...Sunday show, the hotel was growing tense. The poolside restaurant, its high glass walls plastered with brown wrapping paper, was now a TV control room, sporting a DANGER-HIGH VOLTAGE sign, and sprouting cable everywhere. Fifteen Cuban cops guarded the equipment through the night. Guest Star Mamie Van Doren and Singer Steve Lawrence toiled at synchronizing their lips with songs they had recorded in Manhattan to avoid technical hitches on the Cuban location. Producer Bill Harbach and his staff kept auditioning local talent, came up with bongo beaters, a singing quartet and a dancer named Tybee Afra who hails from...
When Mamie Van Doren slipped out of her evening gown behind a poolside screen and reappeared in a bathing suit, an advertising-agency man with a sharp eye on rehearsals objected that the strapless suit looked too much like underwear. "This stuff may be O.K. for Havana," he said, "but how about East Cupcake, Iowa? That's where I'm from. I carry it around up here in my head." Somehow, on a Havana Sunday morning. Wardrobe's Consuelo Gana managed to produce a selection of a dozen more bathing suits to the measure of East Cupcake...