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...know his name-I know his name," the contestant muttered desperately. For a few seconds longer he punished his memory while some 50 million Americans held their breaths. Then Charles Van Doren, 31, turned full face to the TV camera. "No, I don't," he confessed with a weak smile. "I guess I don't know...
...ended last week the four-month mental marathon that had accomplished the transformation of an egghead into a TV darling (TIME, Feb. 11 et seq.). By failing to name Belgium's King Baudouin, Van Doren lost the game on NBC's Twenty One to Mrs. Vivienne Nearing, a blonde barrister who had tied him for two weeks running. The loss shaved Van Doren's take from $143,000 to $129,000, still the largest prize ever awarded on any single program. Income taxes will slice this sum plus the annual $4,500 he gets as an English...
...defeat by Mrs. Nearing left him wondering what to do with the remainder of his sudden fame. In any case, he intends to stay at Columbia. But he has been deluged with outside offers from radio, TV and Hollywood, now needs an agent to handle the requests. Van Doren claims to have made no commitments about his future in show business other than to sign up for the first program of NBC Radio's revival of Conversation on March 21, which will be moderated by his good friend Critic Clifton Fadiman. What does Van Doren plan to charge...
...benefit from the NBC project, and will have to take hope for the future in the high intentions voiced by commercial broadcasters fortnight ago at a Boston conference on public-service programing, hosted by the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. Many would agree with Guest Speaker Charles (Twenty One) Van Doren, who told the conference: "You can have faith in an audience. I have heard from so many people who say, 'Please, let's have something that stretches us a bit; let's have something that makes us wake up and even keeps us awake, because television so many...
...Presidents of the U.S. who went on to be elected to the presidency, both minds clicked along the same track of thought, got three chronologically (Adams. Jefferson, Van Buren), jumped to the latest-Harry Truman-then to Coolidge and then agonized for a while before naming Teddy Roosevelt. Van Doren, who risks losing $42,000, perhaps even more, of his big pot, was beginning to chafe at the tension: "It's like a full house in a poker game when there's a lot of money going." Vivienne Nearing. whose policy is to go for the big questions...