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Have students consider which modes of transportation they might use to travel from New York to San Francisco and how long each journey would take.Â
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"And here is your host, Bill Fox." I stood there for a moment until somebody said, "That's you."Â
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The headline of this Los Angeles Times article reads "President Wants TV Scandals Cleaned Up." Published November 5, 1959.
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When Charles Van Doren faced these questions on the NBC quiz show "Twenty One," he held a hidden advantage.
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Timeline of 100 years of crime from 1896 to 1996.
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Beginning in radio, Enright had worked with Jack Barry to create and produce a series of successful quiz shows.
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aAs the man who helped expose Charles Van Doren, the most famous quiz show contestant of all, Stempel earned a place in television history.
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One sponsor clearly implicated was the cosmetics company, Revlon, operated by Charles Revson.
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Perhaps no other figure involved in the television quiz shows of the 1950s had a more meteoric rise and fall than Charles Van Doren.
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As television moved into millions of homes in the 1950s, the popular quiz shows followed.
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The big-money quiz show that spawned a rash of copycats in the mid-1950s was none other than "The $64,000 Question."
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The true victims were not the contestants, Stone writes, many of whom made money, but the television viewers hoodwinked into believing that the fiction they were watching was actually real-life drama.
