Beads of perspiration formed on his forehead and brow, then smeared the face of Herb Stemple under the glaring television lights.He fidgeted and wiped his brow as 50 million people watched from the comfort of their homes.His rival, Columbia University Prof.
Charles Van Doren, wrote of Stemple in the New Yorker in 2008: “Stempel’s posture and gestures were awkward, his clothes were too tight — he seemed almost to be choking in his shirt — and his speech was wooden.”What viewers of the game show Twenty-One didn’t know at the time was that Stemple would play a starring role in TV’s first mega-scandal.According to his family, Stemple died quietly at aged 93 on April 7.
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