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  2. Charles Van Doren - Wikipedia

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    Charles Lincoln Van Doren (February 12, 1926 – April 9, 2019) [1] was an American writer and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s. In 1959 he testified before the United States Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the NBC quiz show Twenty-One.

  3. 1950s quiz show scandals - Wikipedia

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    They soon found what they were looking for in Charles Van Doren, an English teacher at Columbia University. Van Doren decided to try out for the NBC quiz show Tic-Tac-Dough . Enright, who produced both Tic-Tac-Dough and Twenty-One, saw his tryout and was familiar with his prestigious family background that included multiple Pulitzer Prize ...

  4. Category:Van Doren family - Wikipedia

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    View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... Pages in category "Van Doren family" ... Carl Van Doren; Charles Van Doren; D. Dorothy Van Doren; I ...

  5. Charles Van Doren, 1950s Quiz Show Scandal Figure, Dies at 93

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    Charles Van Doren, who as a young, well-spoken and handsome academic became one of TV’s first overnight sensations and just as quickly one of the first to fall from grace, as he became the ...

  6. Herb Stempel - Wikipedia

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    Stempel answered the question correctly, but when offered their standard opportunity to stop the game, Van Doren stopped it and became the new Twenty-One champion. [citation needed] As the investigation progressed, Charles Van Doren, now a host on The Today Show, was under pressure from NBC to testify. To avoid the committee's subpoena, he went ...

  7. Mark Van Doren - Wikipedia

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    Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was an American poet, writer and critic. He was a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thinkers including Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, John Berryman, Whittaker Chambers, and Beat Generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.

  8. Philip Van Doren Stern - Wikipedia

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    Philip Van Doren Stern was born in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, into a family of humble means.His Pennsylvania-born father, Isadore Ullman, was a traveling merchant of Bavarian Jewish [1] descent, who came to Wyalusing from West Virginia with his New Jersey-born wife, the former Anne Van Doren.

  9. Sharon Stone's 'Mind Is Completely Blown' After Learning Her ...

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    It seems Sharon Stone is not the only powerful person in her family.. In PEOPLE's exclusive look at the actress' appearance on the Jan. 28 episode of Finding Your Roots, Stone, 66, is at a loss ...

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