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Your Feb. 11 story on Charles Van Doren and the Van Doren family is the most fascinating thing I've read in many a day. The private and public personality of Charles is tops. And so is your splendid article...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Your willingness to add your great weight to glamorizing intelligence and memory (Van Doren) should earn you new praises. Look what glamorizing did for sex, athletics and big business. Let us hope it can do the same for mental powers. A great many teachers and "students" are probably adding their thanks to the egghead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Please have pity on the frustration of all the mothers of young intellectuals who combed your Van Doren article for Charles's IQ. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

MARGARET DE Lucco Lakewood, Ohio flSays Quiz Whiz Van Doren: "I don't know and I don't care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...first to nominate Charles Van Doren as the "Man of the Year." And in the even far more distant future, I would nominate this particular egghead as the 1960 replacement for Adlai Stevenson (if he were 35 by then). By way of politics, which camp claims Charlie Van Doren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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