America’s most notorious quiz-show contestant was 93
The next public part he played, three years later, was even more nerve-racking. It was in Washington,, rather than New York. Instead of the nation, it was the eyes of the House special subcommittee on legislative oversight that were on him. “I would give almost anything I have to reverse the course of my life in the last three years,” he told the congressmen. “I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them…I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception.
Young Charles was a speed reader, getting through two or three books a day. His parents gave him free rein—and he ran. The High School of Music & Art in New York, a masters in astrophysics, ain English, both from Columbia. “I believe nothing is of more vital importance to our civilisation than education.” He would follow his father and teach at Columbia, where they would share an office.
Convinced that he might, at last, do something he could call his own, he signed. But after 14 weeks his reign came to an end .offered him a job as its special cultural correspondent. The pay was $50,000 a year. The brainy gladiator would be doing it for the children of America. After all, television was the largest classroom in the world.
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