While it may be a tough pill to swallow, the SAT and ACT — for all of their flaws — are invaluable tools in the college ...

Perhaps no other figure involved in the television quiz shows of the 1950s had a more meteoric rise and fall than Charles Van Doren, a Columbia English professor who became a celebrated winner on ...

Sure, in a way. You may wish to sign up with Mark Van Doren, the great professor of English who lived from 1894 to 1972. In 1938, he wrote Shakespeare, which can be had in an edition from NYRB.

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 ...

However, as the man who helped expose Charles Van Doren, the most famous quiz show contestant of all, Stempel earned a place in television history. When Stempel was chosen as a contestant ...

Mamie Van Doren reciting or enacting Shakespeare? That is intriguing.” But alas . . . Another reader writes, The only Van Doren I had heard of is Mamie. You have broadened my horizons.