TV & Radio: The Wizard of Quiz

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TV's brightest new face wears an agony that in only ten weeks has grown as familiar to millions as Ed Murrow's cigarette or Arthur Godfrey's tea bag. Clamped in a vise of earphones, the eyes roll heavenward and squeeze shut, the brow sweats and furrows, the teeth gnaw at the lower lip. But the weekly torment of concentration always ends in triumph for Charles Lincoln Van Doren, 30, who has already won $122,000—more than any other quiz contestant in history—and is still going strong on NBC's Twenty One (Mon. 9 p.m., E.S.T.)....

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