HARTFORD, Conn. -- Charles Van Doren, the dashing young academic whose meteoric rise and fall as a corrupt game show contestant in the 1950s inspired the movie "Quiz Show" and served as a cautionary ...

The hero in modern America is not the philosopher who retires to his Walden to ponder the ways of man, nor the frontiersman who declares: “I will go farther into the unknown.” In this day and age it ...

Charles Van Doren, one of the first intellectual stars of the television era as a contestant on the NBC show "Twenty One," who quickly became the country's leading villain after admitting that his ...

FOR the friends and family of Charles Van Doren, most of the fascination of his mental marathon is not what he says—which is fascinating enough—but the fact that he can say anything at all before the ...

So I was wrong. For years I’ve been announcing wherever two or more are gathered together that the Village needs another coffee shop like a moose needs a hat rack, and just when the words were ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Charles Van Doren, the dashing young academic whose meteoric rise and fall as a corrupt game show contestant in the 1950s inspired the movie “Quiz Show” and served as a ...