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Charlie and Mark

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To the Editor:

Joseph Epstein’s recollections of the quiz-show scandal [“Redford's Van Doren & Mine,” December 1994] triggered a memory of my own.

Back at the dawn of TV history—1957—I was an instructor in the Columbia University English department. I was also a contestant on a Jack Barry/Dan Enright game show. Does this sound like the wayward path taken by the luckless Charles Van Doren? You bet.



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