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...Saber Is Bent, Paar...
Wallace asked her about Jack Paar. "Sad creature," said Kilgallen. Wallace asked her about Frank Sinatra. "We were friends once, but we had a falling out," said Kilgallen. "Falling out?" wondered Wallace, swiftly adding: "If it's none of my business, just say so, and I'll go on to the next one." But quietly, and with eyes demurely on the floor, Kilgallen told her story. She had not been able to understand why Frankie suddenly became distant and unfriendly. She asked a friend of Sinatra. "You see," said the friend, "Frank just doesn't like anybody...
Clips & Peeps. Turning to the press. Paar fingered New York Times TV Columnist Jack Gould as the man who had led the "literary lynching." Noting that Gould had criticized him for interlacing his Berlin shows with commercials, Paar summoned the TV cameras to have a close peep at a freshly assembled collection of pages from the Times, showing ads full of brassieres and what Paar called "crotch shots" of girdles and panties running side by side with reports on the world's most crucial news. Moving onward and downward, Paar tore into the "yellow journalists," attacked the New York...
Outhouses & Spare Parts. Returning to the air the following night. Paar said: "Welcome to 'Beat the Press.' I have resumed nuclear testing." But throwing only a jab or two at the domestic enemy ("Some reporters write with crayons"), he settled down quickly to a chatty description of the foreign enemy in Moscow. Astonishingly enough, Paar as a reporter proved to be absolutely superb, from his description of the eerie silence of Russian crowds to his sketch of the ambitious personality of his Intourist guide. In one felicitous phrase, he marveled at the lack of a cultural and technological...
...Berlin, Paar, typically, was not content to argue (with justice) that his activities were totally innocuous. He went on to claim that he had actually been "a calming influence" in Berlin. While his cameras were working, he pointed out, buses went through the barricades without being stopped by the Volkspolizei, weapons disappeared, and so forth. Upshot: "I think I'll leave for the Congo very soon...