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    Charles Lincoln Van Doren (February 12, 1926 – April 9, 2019) was an American writer and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in...
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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...
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    Mamie Van Doren (/ˈmeɪmi væn ˈdɔːrən/; born Joan Lucille Olander; February 6, 1931) is an American actress, singer, model, and sex symbol who rose to...
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    and the uncle of Charles Van Doren. He won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Benjamin Franklin. Van Doren was born on September...
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  • more, making them appear to be under great stress. College professor Charles Van Doren (1926–2019) was introduced as a contestant on Twenty-One on November...
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  • Van Doren Charles Van Doren (1926–2019), quiz show contestant, professor and Encyclopædia Britannica editor, son of Mark Van Doren Dorothy Van Doren (1896–1993)...
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  • producers. The film chronicles the rise and fall of popular contestant Charles Van Doren after the fixed loss of Herb Stempel and Goodwin's subsequent probe...
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    Dorothy Graffe Van Doren (May 2, 1896 – February 21, 1993) was an American writer and editor. Dorothy Graffe was born in 1896 in San Francisco, California...
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    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...
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  • equally rigged defeat by Columbia University teacher and literary scion Charles Van Doren. A self-described "avid reader" as a child, who was "interested in...
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    her husband, John Van Doren, son of quiz show celebrity Charles Van Doren and grandson of Columbia University professor Mark Van Doren at Phillips Academy...
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  • heavily revised for a 1972 edition, co-authored by Adler with editor Charles Van Doren. The 1972 revision gives guidelines for critically reading good and...
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    Mâcon The Bishop's Son Schindler's List Amon Göth 1994 Quiz Show Charles Van Doren 1995 Strange Days Lenny Nero 1996 The English Patient Count László...
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  • Twenty-One's Charles Van Doren, who went on to win for 14 weeks and became a cover subject for Time, thus causing the show's popularity to soar. Van Doren replaced...
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    subtitled A Guide to Reading the Great Books, 1972 revised edition with Charles Van Doren, The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading: ISBN 0-671-21209-5 Problems...
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    Kenny Richard Rodgers Theatre, Broadway 1995 Night and Her Stars Charles Van Doren The American Place Theatre, Off-Broadway 1997 Three Days of Rain Walker/Ned...
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     104. ISBN 978-0-19-506469-8 – via Google Books. McHenry, Robert and Charles Van Doren (1971). Webster's Guide to American History. New York: Merriam. (1917)...
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    Stempel Charles Van Doren Elfrida von Nardroff Leonard Ross Joyce Brothers Marie Winn Pop culture and advertisers Other key figures Robert Redford Charles Revson...
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    difficulties of the job. In 1994, he portrayed the American academic Charles Van Doren in Quiz Show. In 1996, he was nominated for the Academy Award for...
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  • nor Larson ever hit critical mass a la [the MIT Blackjack Team] and Charles Van Doren". Speaking on Larson's win the same year, the Boston Herald's John...
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  • than a year, before being surpassed by Charles Van Doren on January 21, 1957, who was playing Twenty One. Van Doren, who won $129,000 total, was almost immediately...
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  • Philip Van Doren Stern (September 10, 1900 – July 31, 1984) was an American writer, editor, and Civil War historian whose story "The Greatest Gift", published...
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  • intellectual history, with emphasis on the western civilization, written by Charles Van Doren, a former editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It is a history of...
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    Stempel Charles Van Doren Elfrida von Nardroff Leonard Ross Joyce Brothers Marie Winn Pop culture and advertisers Other key figures Robert Redford Charles Revson...
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     619. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. Retrieved October 8, 2023. "Potrzebie: Charles Van Doren and the Rip in the Fabric of Reality". Retrieved October 18, 2020...
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    cartoonist and celebrated wit Charles Van Doren (1926–2019), historian, notable quiz show contestant, resident Mark Van Doren (1894–1972), poet and teacher...
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  • the June 13, 2011 issue Lisa Simeone, National Public Radio host Charles Van Doren, garnered notoriety for his involvement in the rigged game show Twenty-One...
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  • as Norse God Loki, John Brown, Ulysses S. Grant, Nelson Mandela, Charles Van Doren, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Don Giovanni. Brett Gurewitz...
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    scandal of the late 1950s, actor Ralph Fiennes as Twenty-One champion Charles Van Doren—shown being offered a regular job on Today—says to the Dave Garroway...
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  • 1932, where it remains. Revlon was founded by brothers Charles and Joseph Revson, and chemist Charles Lachman. Revlon products are sold in 150 countries and...
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