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Word: elfrida (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great television quiz-show scandal ended quietly last week. Pending for 15 months, the arraignments for the trial of ten erstwhile quiz masters were conducted in a Manhattan court. The great Hank Bloomgarden ($98,500) was there, and crop-haired Elfrida von Nardroff, whose $220,500 winnings were the highest of all. But every eye in court was on Charles Lincoln Van Doren, bearer of one of the great names in American letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Final Flashbulbs | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...hats, but when she does she likes them large-brimmed and fem inine, though never fussy. If she has a fashion-signature, it is simplicity." . . . Reminding televiewers that the last echo of rigged TV quiz shows has not yet died away, a Manhattan grand jury called in onetime Quizling Elfrida von Nardroff, 34, winner of $220,500 on NBC's extinct, discredited Twenty One program, to tell what, if anything, she knew about sure-fire answers. As she left the hearing. Elfrida was asked by a pack of local newshounds what had happened at the session. Replied ex-Answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 1, 1960 | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

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