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...condemn us all in wholesale fashion," pleaded Twenty One's Packager Dan Enright. "Lift the mystery and establish the facts." Herbert Stempel, 31, one of the show's earliest big-money winners ($49,000), claimed to be doing just that. He was hardly a confidence-inspiring witness. He seemed bent on destroying the reputations of everyone connected with the show, admitted bitterly envying Charles Van Doren, the man who defeated him. ("I took my wife to the theater one night, and I overheard somebody saying, 'That's the guy who was beat by Charles Van Doren...
Acting School. After applying for a spot on the show in the fall of 1956, Stempel, then a C.C.N.Y. student, took a general information test, and did remarkably well. One night Producer Enright went to Herb's apartment and gave him another verbal exam. "Then," says Herb, "Dan leaned back and said, 'How'd you like to win a lot of money?' I said, 'Well, sure.' 'Look,' he said, 'kid, play ball with...
After that, Herb went on, Enright told him to get a "whitewall" marine-style haircut, and selected a worn-out suit and tie for him to complete the picture of the penniless G.I. He coached him in grimace and gesture, taught him how to "think" violently in the TV isolation booth ("I call it the Dan Enright school of acting"). All his questions, said Herb, were fed to him in advance by Enright...
...five winning weeks, said Herb, he hit his mentor for a $17,000 advance-and got it. "See," he crowed, as he told his story last week, "the show has to be phony, or I wouldn't have got the dough. Why, I could have lost everything, and Enright would have been...
...Mahal is; I was forced to say that Gothic architecture originated in Germany when I know damn well it was France. See, that's the trend now: a big winner will have to flub the easy ones to make the American public look good." Eventually, said Herb, Enright told him, "We've reached a plateau. We need a new face." Herb was forced to lose to Van Doren-and that tore...