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...read ("I've read nearly everything ever written about Napoleon"; "I just got through Citadel by William White of the N.Y. Times, and incidentally, it's a hell of a condemnation of the excesses in congressional investigations"), and he also enjoys television. He dotes on big-money quiz shows. "I do fairly good on some of those questions," says Beck, in a rueful comparison with his answers on John McClellan's quiz show...
...interesting to note that stern Critic Fadiman himself did much to forward the cause as Headmaster of the Quiz Kids by conscientiously addressing the unseen audience as "Folks...
...terrifying." says Charles Van Doren. "She knows everything!" Quiz Champ Van Doren was referring to his latest and ablest challenger in the gaming booths of Twenty One: Vivienne Nearing. 30. a blonde and pretty lawyer with a hard-candy smile who next week (NBC. Monday night at 9) threatens to chop a chunk out of Van Doren's $143,000 prize money...
...early round on Twenty One, Vivienne Nearing's husband Victor, also a lawyer, fell before Van Doren's erudition -one of his 13 victims in 13 weeks. So Vivienne Nearing. who has a weakness for parlor quiz games, decided to recoup the family honor. On the three-to four-hour, 363-question test given to would-be Twenty One contestants, Vivienne scored third highest in the show's history-just ahead of John Kieran Jr. and just behind Van Doren (her husband was seventh). A sometime painter, pianist and Double-Crostics fan, she has a bachelor...
...primer on the new tongue in the current Holiday, Fadiman classifies the M.C.s of the top quiz and interview shows as the Noah Websters and Fowlers of the age. Writes he: "They employ certain mandatory words and phrases, now becoming part of our general vocabulary: but seriously to indicate that what follows is to be duller than what has preceded; definitely for yes; great or wunnerful to express mild approval, or often merely to show that the M.C. has heard and noted a statement by the interviewee; he's so right; I've got news for yuh; that...