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...mediocrity pained her. To Critic John Crosby, this was his cup of chlorine, and last week he took over where Critic Williams had left off. In his New York Herald Tribune column, he expanded the argument into a general indictment of recent NBC network policy under President Robert Kintner and Board Chairman Robert Sarnoff...
...Hong Kong-but for some reason, he went by way of Florida. Somehow, he happened to land in West Palm Beach, a quick Cadillac ride from Boca Raton, where NBC brass happened to be attending a meeting with network affiliates. Quite naturally, when NBC Bosses Bob Sarnoff and Bob Kintner learned of Paar's arrival, they dropped everything and motored up the highway to greet him. The meeting was brief. Paar handed his visitors a letter apologizing for his walkout and promising to live up to his contract. Both Bobs read it and agreed that Jack could take...
...things heard on previous Paar shows or elsewhere on TV. But NBC was in no mood to lose a topnotch performer - and moneymaker. All week long newspaper re porters haunted Paar's suburban home in Bronxville, recording every sob and sigh. According to Paar, even NBC President Robert Kintner and NBC Chairman Rob ert Sarnoff had tried to reach him by phone. "They're not bad people as net work executives go," said Paar, but he would not talk to them, hoped to leave on a long vacation. Then he told another story - this time about a poor...
...promptly suggested that it might repair the cup. A conciliatory letter from President Kintner reminded Paar of the other people on his show who were affected by his walkout. "I hope you will think of all of them, Jack, and decide to come back to us." At the same time, NBC was insisting that it would hold Paar to his fiveyear, $200,000-a-year contract...
...complaint against Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. for false filter advertising claims. The Life ads convinced the FTC something had to be done for the industry as a whole, and the formal complaint convinced the cigarette makers that it would be prudent to agree to end the filter derby. Said Kintner gratefully, noting that cigarette advertisers spend $190 million a year: "It is no small feat for them to change the major emphasis of a number of brands...