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...office of New York County's District Attorney Frank Hogan, a tape machine whirred for 55 minutes. The unwinding spool was supposed to offer proof that Herbert Stempel, onetime Twenty One contestant, was lying when he accused Producer Dan Enright of feeding him answers in advance (TIME, Sept. 8). The tape brought no such conclusive evidence. Instead, it did something that was possibly more important. It offered a fascinating look behind the gleaming isolation booths and the golden M.C. grins into a back room of greed, craftiness and weird emotions...
...suspects when a Tennessee minister announced that the toughest part of a four-ply question had been slipped to him at a preshow "briefing session." But the week's real drama was played out on the tape in the D.A.'s office. Leading character: Dan Enright (real name: Daniel Ehrenreich), 41, who rose from New York City's schools via radio engineering jobs and the Signal Corps into the dazzling giveaway world...
Supporting player: Herbert Stempel, 31, brainy product of The Bronx, who seems to want nothing better than to be part of Dan Enright's world. Among the things these two men have in common is a strange reliance on the cliches of psychoanalysis-the ex-slum kid's new equalizer...
Ready Answers. Dapper Dan Enright had a ready answer: Stempel's story had long since been proved false. Stempel had indeed tried to peddle his story to the New York Post and the Journal-American more than a year ago, and neither paper had been sufficiently convinced to print it. He had also signed a "confession" for Enright, stating that his charges had been false. But last week, when Stempel repeated his fraud story to the district attorney, the World-Telegram & Sun and the Journal published it-and were promptly sued for libel by Barry & Enright Productions...
...return for the promise of a job on another Barry-Enright show-a job I never got." Was it true, as Enright ominously suggested, that Stempel" had been under psychiatric care? Said Stempel: "Sure I've been to a psychiatrist; I suffered from an acute anxiety neurosis after I appeared on Twenty...