Word: defunct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 2--Charles Van Doren confessed in shame and anguish today that he was deeply involved in rigging the defunct "Twenty-One" quiz show. Now he faces possible perjury charges in court and perhaps an end to his television career...
Founded in 1409 by Germans who felt themselves discriminated against at Prague's Charles University, Leipzig became Germany's fourth oldest university (after Heidelberg, Cologne and the now-defunct Erfurt). It survived the struggle between Catholicism and the Reformation (Martin Luther had a memorable disputation there with Johann Eck in 1519). By the 18th century it was sternly Protestant in name and happily tolerant in fact. Student Johann Wolfgang Goethe spent much of his time impressing girls in local wine cellars, called the place "Little Paris." "It was a delightfully individualistic school," recalls a West German professor...
...mentioned the Watch and Ward Society as a group interested in and aiding the investigation with a view towards possible presentation to the District Attorney. Dwight W. Strong, however, stated categorically that the organization, which he formally headed, has had nothing to do with the matter and is now defunct. Furthermore, Daniel J. Brennan, chief of the Cambridge police, said that as far as he knew there have been no complaints, nor any police action against Identity...
...have impounded issues and jailed staffers, sometimes confiscated the cameras of Drum photographers on the ground that any "coloured" with a camera must surely have stolen it. These difficulties do not perturb Drum's Editor Henry Thomas Hopkinson, 54, former editor of the London Picture Post (now defunct), who went to Johannesburg in 1958, regularly entertains native staffers in his home...
Divorced. Richard McCutchen, 32, personable onetime Marine Corps captain, now a Volkswagen district service manager, famed for his $64,000 winnings on cooking knowledge (he was the first top winner) from TV's now defunct The $64,000 Question; by Betsy Griffen McCutchen, 32; after ten years of marriage, three children; in Delaware, Ohio...