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Charles Van Doren, American academic (died 2019)

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Charles Van Doren

American writer and editor (1926–2019)

Charles Lincoln Van Doren was an American writer and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s. In 1959 he testified before the United States Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the NBC quiz show Twenty-One.…
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February 12

Day of the year

February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 322 days remain until the end of the year.
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