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...past ten years I've been on the air doing a great deal of talking," said TV's soft-spoken Dave Garroway, 47, announcing his resignation as host of NBC's Today show. "I want to start looking, thinking, and listening.'' Burdened by his wife's death (TIME, May 5), he also wants to be a good father to his three children "during a critical period in their lives." Said he: "Our family needs each other now more than ever...
Died. Pamela Wilde Kastner Garroway, 34, pert second wife of TV Star Dave (Today) Garroway; presumably from an overdose of barbiturates; in Manhattan...
...Borscht Sky. NBC once trumpeted its color programing with the argument (in an ad) that in a world without color, "pea soup would look exactly like borscht, and can you imagine London enshrouded in a borscht fog?" As if carried away with the notion, the network presented Dave Garroway's Today show against something magenta that could only have been a borscht sky. And at the other end of Color Day, The Jack Paar Show-which is tinted nightly and which in more than three years has remained immensely entertaining-seemed much the same, on or off-color...
Dave's Place (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A Garroway "at home" attended by Cliff Norton, Julie London, Joe Wilder's Jazz Group and the New York Woodwind Quintet, among others...
...growing ever more debonair as fatigue mounted all about him. CBS finally quit at 7 a.m., continuing spot coverage an hour later, while NBC stuck it out until 7:30. By then, Brinkley grandly and unilaterally announced Kennedy's election ("NBC has just awarded him California"), and Dave Garroway, NBC's regular morning glory, took over...