Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tall, handsome young man in the isolation booth, his face contorted with mental effort, his lips muttering a kind of private stream-of-consciousness through which he tried to find the answers to Twenty One's difficult questions. Bearer of a distinguished name, Charles Van Doren (TIME cover, Feb. n, 1957) had seemed the finest product of American education, character, family background and native intelligence. Could it be that all or much of that picture had been sham? That was the most disturbing question raised by last week's Washington hearings on the scandal of the television quiz...
...took a dive. And the woman who finally dethroned Van Doren, blonde Lawyer Vivienne Nearing, 32, was shown to have received $10,000 although she won only $5,500 under the rules of the game. Furthermore, Van Doren himself drew a $5,000 advance "for Christmas presents" at a time when he could have lost all his winnings-$20,000 at the time. Before the Congressmen and S.R.O. audiences in a huge, white-columned House caucus room, the witnesses gave a rare and disturbing backstage peek at carnival showmanship and cupidity...
...happened then? Enright's onetime pressagent, Art Franklin, told the story. "It was just automatically assumed by everyone that Herb Stempel was a raving lunatic," said Franklin. Even so NBC was "terrified," and "kept their hands as clean as possible by kicking it under the carpet." At that time (spring 1957) little more than a simple denial from Producer Enright was enough for NBC to announce that its own "investigation had proved Stempel's charges to be utterly baseless and untrue." But P.R. Man Franklin was not so sure of the truthfulness of his client. As he testified...
...charges when they were first made; even as late as last October, when NBC took over Dan Enright's and M.C. Jack Barry's supervision of the shows, NBC said that it was doing it so that the partners, in their own words, could "devote more time to disproving the unfounded charges against our integrity...
...spontaneity, with every delighted squeal ("Darling, I haven't seen you in ages'') and every "ad-lib"' joke carefully put down beforehand by veteran Radio-TV Writer Goodman Ace and a staff of three. Typical of the show's calculated coyness was the time Tallulah Bankhead (whose parody of herself is becoming increasingly pathetic) started to tell a joke about some Texans in Paris, only to be cut off by a commercial. Writer-Producer Ace promises that on successive shows a guest will tell a little bit more of the joke until, by season...