He also was told to get a “Marine-type haircut.” “The whole aim was to make me into a nerd, a square, a human computer,” Stempel said. The next afternoon, Enright ran Stempel through a ...

ill-fitting suit and get this Marine-type haircut,” he said, “was to make me appear as what you would call today a nerd, a square.” Mr. Stempel was a paid consultant on the Redford film and ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Herbert Stempel (pictured in 1969) agreed to lose to Charles Van Doren on a TV game show and later blew the whistle on the scandal. AP File Share NEW YORK ...

Stempel was aware of the game plan and learned it well. "The reason I had been asked to put on this old, ill-fitting suit and get this Marine-type haircut was to make me appear as what you would ...

Herbert Stempel, at one time the most famous Army veteran in America, died at age 93 on April 7. His death was confirmed this weekend by his former stepdaughter, Bobra Fyne. Back in 1956 ...

Herbert Stempel, most famously known as the whistleblower in the TV quiz show scandals of the 1950s, died this past April. He was 93 years old. According to the New York Times, Stempel's death was ...

Herbert Stempel, the contestant on NBC’s “Twenty-One” who helped uncover the quiz show rigging scandals of the 1950s, died on April 7 at the age of 93. His death, which had not been publicly ...

As a contestant on NBC's Twenty-One in 1956, Stempel went public with the revelation that he was given the answers to questions. Editor at Large for Entertainment Weekly, host of Outlander Live!

Herbert Stempel, the Bronx-born brainiac who became a central figure and whistleblower in the game show rigging scandals of the 1950s, a cultural turning point later chronicled in the 1994 movie ...

NEW YORK — Herbert Stempel, a fall guy and whistleblower of early television whose confession to deliberately losing on a 1950s quiz show helped drive a national scandal and join his name in ...