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...terrifying." says Charles Van Doren. "She knows everything!" Quiz Champ Van Doren was referring to his latest and ablest challenger in the gaming booths of Twenty One: Vivienne Nearing. 30. a blonde and pretty lawyer with a hard-candy smile who next week (NBC. Monday night at 9) threatens to chop a chunk out of Van Doren's $143,000 prize money...
...early round on Twenty One, Vivienne Nearing's husband Victor, also a lawyer, fell before Van Doren's erudition -one of his 13 victims in 13 weeks. So Vivienne Nearing. who has a weakness for parlor quiz games, decided to recoup the family honor. On the three-to four-hour, 363-question test given to would-be Twenty One contestants, Vivienne scored third highest in the show's history-just ahead of John Kieran Jr. and just behind Van Doren (her husband was seventh). A sometime painter, pianist and Double-Crostics fan, she has a bachelor...
After her first match against Van Doren two weeks ago, Mrs. Nearing spent the weekend poring over the Encyclopaedia Britannica. But none of her hunches paid off. Still she managed to tie Van Doren and push the stakes to $1,000 a point...
...Says Van Doren: ''I'm a maverick...
What, if any, religious affiliation does Van Doren have...