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Died. Dan Golenpaul, 73, impresario who dreamed up the long-lived Information Please radio quiz show in 1938; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...Golenpaul helped sift the questions from listeners who for more than a decade tried to stump such quick wits as Critic Clifton Fadiman, Pianist Oscar Levant and Sportswriter John Kieran...
...radio's first and best quiz shows, Information Please had taken its time about making the switch to TV. "Two and a half years ago," says Producer Dan Golenpaul, "the audience was limited to 1,500,000 who watched only wrestling and roller derbies. Our audience wasn't there. Now, with 17 million sets, we're going to have a fair percentage of the viewers." Last week, in a setting designed by Broadway's Jo Mielziner, Information Please finally took the plunge...
When confident Impresario Dan Golenpaul offered $500 to anyone who could completely stump his Information Please experts on all parts of a question, he figured on losing once in every five programs. For ten straight programs, the experts parried the thrusts. The break came last week...
Today Dan Golenpaul absorbs at least 20% of the $10,000 weekly fee that Heinz pays for the show. Tall, curly-haired, arrogant, he has a penchant for big cigars, for calling himself "a stormy petrel." Of his undeniably-successful Information Please he moans: "I should have got this ten years ago. I was robbed...