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Charles Van Doren

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  • Adler and his acolyte Charles Van Doren, are once again available on video from Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Center for the Study of The Great Ideas.

    April 2009 2009

  • Otherwise, Charles Van Doren and Ken Jennings aside, they might have just been like game-show runners-up (or even winners), part of our consciousness for an hour or two, and then gone forever.

    Candy Spelling: Morphing Into Celebrity 2009

  • But as Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren wrote in "How to Read a Book," the ideal "is not merely to be able to read faster, but to be able to read at different speeds -- and to know when different speeds are appropriate."

    Developing Speed-Reading Skills 2009

  • Next Post After 50 years of silence, quiz-show scandal figure Charles Van Doren speaks!

    Bits and Bobs (Vol. 6): Nathaniel Parker (aka Inspector Lynley) checks out... and in | EW.com 2008

  • Charles Van Doren was at the heart of the Quiz Show Scandals in the 1950s Ralph Fiennes played him in Quiz Show about a decade ago.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » September 2008

  • In that same 1959, Charles Van Doren and host Jack Barry admitted to having rigged "The $64,000 Question," and nothing anymore seemed sacred.

    The '50S 2008

  • His range will be apparent when "Quiz Show," directed by Robert Redford, arrives next fall; Fiennes stars as Charles Van Doren, the Brahmin brought down by the TV game-show scandals of the '50s.

    New Faces For The New Year ..Mr.- 2008

  • Charles Van Doren was at the heart of the Quiz Show Scandals in the 1950s Ralph Fiennes played him in Quiz Show about a decade ago.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » August Recommended Reading List 2008

  • HE MOVIE "QUIZ SHOW" HAS NOT JUST ENGAGED audiences with an engrossing account of the "fixed" television program "Twenty-One" and its fallen star, Charles Van Doren.

    The Quiz Show Scandals 2008

  • But no one would have felt that the revelation was going to diminish the regard for intelligence in the society or impair the standing of scholarship or cause millions of impressionable people to revise their values once again and decide that dodos (whom they were said, in the '50s, to have dropped in favor of Charles Van Doren) were the only suitable role models, after all.

    The Quiz Show Scandals 2008

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