![]() ![]() So he began trying to get the attention of the press to let them know what was going on. The next thing that happened was that, and the movie, again, touches on this, he got swindled out of his winnings by some really shady investment deals. He took that quote in TV Guide very personally. “When Charles Van Doren made the cover of TV Guide,” he says, “in an adjoining article Jack Barry said, ‘This is the kind of contestant that we really want, because he’s not a freak with a sponge memory.’ Jack didn’t name a name, but Herb Stempel read that article and was convinced that that was a shot at him. The producers, according to Adam, probably felt that Stempel would fade into the background, but that didn’t happen - not helped by the fact that the former contestant felt he was being taunted.
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