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...small additional item: a nose clip of rubber-padded steel. They clambered into Archerfish's tiny forward escape hatch and dogged down the door, cutting themselves off from the rest of the submarine. Over UQC came the word: all set. Penguin's skipper, Lieut. Commander George Enright, began a six-minute countdown...
...Explode with Answers." Twenty One's Producer Dan Enright, 42, testified that on many shows the fix "has been in force for many years." Herbert Stempel, the man who was defeated by Van Doren, admitted that he took a dive. And the woman who finally dethroned Van Doren, blonde Lawyer Vivienne Nearing, 32, was shown to have received $10,000 although she won only $5,500 under the rules of the game. Furthermore, Van Doren himself drew a $5,000 advance "for Christmas presents" at a time when he could have lost all his winnings...
...precise detail, Herbert Stempel, a paper genius (IQ: 170) and onetime patient of a psychiatrist, related how Twenty One's Enright had set him up for the fix ("How would you like to win $25,000?"), schooled him on how to perform ("Count off and mumble, suddenly open [your] eyes, give a dazzling smile and explode with the answers"), and ordered him to bow before the engaging erudition of Charlie Van Doren. Stempel walked off with a consoling $49,500 in winnings. But when he quickly blew the money, Stempel became disillusioned, started leaking stories...
What happened then? Enright's onetime pressagent, Art Franklin, told the story. "It was just automatically assumed by everyone that Herb Stempel was a raving lunatic," said Franklin. Even so NBC was "terrified," and "kept their hands as clean as possible by kicking it under the carpet." At that time (spring 1957) little more than a simple denial from Producer Enright was enough for NBC to announce that its own "investigation had proved Stempel's charges to be utterly baseless and untrue." But P.R. Man Franklin was not so sure of the truthfulness of his client...
Pratt and his four defensemen made some magnificent plays before bowling to Marquis' classically executed goal to 11:20 of the third period. Marquis stationed himself a foot outside the crease and found an opening after Pratt made two great saves after a shot by Pat Enright. The Crimson was a man down at the time, as Greg Downes saved a goal by hooking John Dooley