Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beginning Nov. 18, Marquand will stay in the guest suite of Kirkland House and will eat his meals in the House dining room...
...four-man team from the Harvard Debate Council leaves today for the University of Omaha Invitation Tournament and will remain for a week. As the only Eastern representative in the Midwestern contest, Harvard's "guest team" will receive free registration and lodging...
Cute Girls. Cigar-smoking Elsa, a spry and engaging 74, is an aimless guest on Paar's weeknight show (11:15 p.m. to 1 a.m.), and he may lose her to other commitments. Still, Paar seems to have collected enough Paar-snips and talented showfolk to rescue NBC from the debacle of its late America after Dark show and save Tonight for many another day. Though Tonight is still a money-losing proposition for NBC, 76 stations now carry the show instead of taking the craven's way out with old movies. In last fortnight alone, Paar...
...become a minister. Instead, he quit school after the tenth grade to become a radio writer and performer, drifted into TV chiefly as a summer replacement. Now, sporting a toupee and a confident sneer of a smile, the new Paar, 39, zanily preens himself, takes pride in guest performers he has shuttled starward (Comedienne Carol Burnett, Singers Diahann Carroll, Trish Dwelley), exchanges mad colloquies with a redhaired, clodpated comedienne named Dody Goodman, and, against his agent's advice, calls himself "the King." (Explains Paar: "Overstatement is very funny.") With an Ernie Kovackian flair for electronic jabberwocky and oddball gimmicks...
...material was narcotic. Using what the psychiatrists call "the melodic striptease," he peeled yards of satin from Bewitched, I Get a Kick Out of You and The Lady Is a Tramp−smearing nostalgia and responding to each lyric with subtle emotion. It was Frankie's guest crew (Kim Novak, Peggy Lee, Bob Hope) who somehow failed to return the charm and sincerity he oozed, though Hope was spasmodically funny: "The State Department is sending me to Asia to spread the American flu." Frankie Boy's most effective helpers appeared with him earlier in the week...