Word: golenpaul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
After Fadiman came F. P. A. (The late Alexander Woollcott scorned the proposition only to admit later on: "I thought it was a lousy idea. I was wrong.") Adams was adamant until Golenpaul asked...
...Merchant of Venice?" Said Adams, "Antonio." Said a gleeful Golenpaul: "I thought you'd say Shylock." Retorted a surprised Adams: "Is that what you want...
John Kieran was next. After his audition, someone observed: "There's a scholar with a Tenth Avenue accent." Said Kieran: "My God, I'd better clean up my enunciation." Golenpaul: "If you do, you're fired...
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...