 He married his wife, Lillian, in 1938 and she became his booking and publications manager.They had two children, Julian and Risa.During the early days of television, and soon after an early 1949 appearance at the Newburgh Free Academy in Newburgh, New York, in which he claimed to have induced a student, Donald A. Romano, into a trance, Dr. Polgar had a 15-minute show on the CBS station in New York City.