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...fact that, as the Washington Post and Times Herald's Edward T. Folliard put it, "this isn't a story, it's just a storybook." Everything happened according to schedule, putting, a heavy strain on the same old adjectives. Complained Hearst's Dorothy Kilgallen: "The only thing you can say for 'this story is that nobody can get scooped. I simply can't write 'radiant' or ''beaming' or 'sumptuous' one other" time." One day when the Queen looked exhausted, Reporter Kilgallen reached all the way to "fatigued...
...cheeked Jack Paar, 39, glibly scared up a little offbeat fun and flapdoodle-something that the gossipists who succeeded Kovacs and Steve Allen were notably unable to do. Despite first-week jitters, technical flaps, occasional lapses into tedium, and a mummer's parade of station-break plugs (Dorothy Kilgallen, Billy Graham, Coty Curl-Set), it looked as if Comedian Paar might be able to realize NBC's hopes of keeping TV "live" after 11, when many U.S. homes are surfeited with aged Hollywood movies. Boss Bob Sarnoff was so pleased that he sent Paar a pair of huge...
Hearing that Columnist-TV Panelist Dorothy (What's My Line?) Kilgallen had ground out an inside story hinting that Princess Grace is once again in a Grimaldi way, Monaco's Prince Rainier III turned a trifle purple, then chuckled away the entire miscoop: "Where do people get these things? It's really a mean thing to report. It is mean because it is inaccurate...
...show, and managed to serve up the fastest variety bill of the new season. Ex-Hoofer Winchell, hat on head, staccato voice spitting old Winchellisms ("The land you love, the love you land"), clowned edgily around a stage clogged with celebrities (Sammy Davis Jr., Joe DiMaggio, Martha Raye, Dorothy Kilgallen) who did nothing much but stand around being celebrities. But the singers worked to good effect: Lola Fisher, understudy for Julie (My Fair Lady) Andrews, singing I Could Have Danced All Night as if she could have; Perry Como's cool, limp delivery of new lyrics to Debussy...
...seen at all. TV Pool Director Bob Doyle (NBC) will call the shots, decide which of the images from scores of cameras will go inside the nation's homes, offices and bars. Between acts the spotlight will fall on the sideshows: Will Rogers Jr., Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, George Gallup, Dave Garroway et al. Walt Kelly's Pogo, campaigning for President (on NBC) with "four buckets of cigar smoke," hopes to "lull the regular parties into a false sense of security by repeated attempts to clarify the issues...