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...news of television is not confined to what is seen on the end of the picture-tube. All that viewers saw or heard was Elsa Maxwell sassily telling Host Jack Paar that Walter Winchell had never voted; but this erroneous remark set off an off-camera scratching match between Columnist Winchell, Maxwell and Paar that was as ludicrous as anything visible on TV. See TV & RADIO, The Titans of Babel...
...Dulsa & Jerque." Truth was Winchell had voted in at least the last two national elections (Elsa claimed that she got her information from a 1952 New York Post series) and could prove it; in 1956, he had proudly posed for a picture as he entered a Manhattan precinct booth to strike a blow for Ike and Dick. Said Walter: "I said to NBC I want them to show that picture of me voting every Tuesday until I got bored. Not until they got bored, but until I got bored." Last week Jack Paar, henceforth answerable to NBC's brass...
...hobble-de-hoyden Tuesday night romps on NBC-TV's Jack Paar Show, doughty Prattler Elsa Maxwell. 74. has merrily trampled and spiked the foibles, veneers and peculiarities of such vulnerable folk as Elvis Presley, Billionaire J. Paul Getty. Jayne Mansfield, "Fatso" Farouk, Linda Christian and many another moving target. But not until one evening a fortnight ago did the gaily irresponsible Elsa turn her gusty gall on one of the few name-and-I-droppers in the world who, pound for pound, can outgossip and outfeud her-Walter Winchell. The battle between the titans of Babel began when...
When the evil tidings were borne to him in Hollywood, 61-year-old Walter flew into a Vesuvian rage. Elsa Maxwell, fumed he, is a "fat, sloppy, smelly [unmentionable]." What was worse, said he, she had jeopardized his pet project, the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund: "Letters have been pouring in from people saying, 'We're not going to give any money to the fund because we hear on the Paar show that you are un-American!'" Winchell announced plans to enrich the Runyon Fund by $24 million by suing all twelve of Paar's sponsors...
...guests (among them: U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, mad-hatted Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper, Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) who in two hours guzzled 30 cases of champagne, chomped 30 Ibs. of phaji (spinach fried in batter). For his crowded frolic, Aly earned an approving smile from Old Partygiveri Elsa Maxwell ("One of the best parties I've ever seen...