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...There has been a lot of discussion as to whether J. Edgar Hoover should be asked to resign from the FBI after his recent remarks about Martin Luther King and the Warren Report," wrote Syndicated Columnist Art Buchwald last week. "I can now reveal for the first time why President Johnson can't ask J. Edgar Hoover to resign. The reason is J. Edgar Hoover doesn't exist. He is a mythical person first thought up by the Reader's Digest.'" Buchwald went on to develop his theme: that even the name was a phony, attached...
...usual, Buchwald was only kidding. But his column, syndicated in 207 newspapers, reaches millions of readers, not all of whom saw through his whimsical jape. Soon newspapers all over were fielding telephone calls from anxious subscribers seeking assurance that there really was a J. Edgar Hoover, or angrily offering to prove Buchwald wrong. "Hundreds took Buchwald seriously, and thought he was just misinformed," reported the Austin (Tex.) Statesman...
...fact exist or else print a retraction. After a thorough day-long investigation, the Republic is now in a position to report that J. Edgar Hoover does in fact exist and is in the best of health. What our investigators further turned up is the fact that Art Buchwald does not exist. He is a mythical person first thought up by MAD magazine...
...ENTERTAINERS (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A new revue series starring Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart and Caterina Valente, with occasional appearances by Art Buchwald, Tessie O'Shea and others. Premi...
...Begonia Day, and Steve Canyon Day at the New York World's Fair-and also Art Buchwald Day, so proclaimed by Fair Boss Robert Moses because a) Buchwald was a busboy at the 1939 fair, b) Buchwald was the only reporter who showed up at a 1960 Moses press conference in Rome and well, anyway, Buchwald is syndicated in some 200 papers and who knows what could happen? What did happen is Art took along his father, Joe Buchwald, 71. "You think I want to go?" muttered Joe. "A man in the curtain business should lose money...