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...seemed on the verge of big things. After two weeks as replacement for Jack Paar, Announcer Hugh Downs-heretofore a relatively obscure, $140,000-a-year television toiler-last week was making plans and sifting "offers." But first he was off to a TV acting job on the West Coast; he will soon narrate a World Wide 60 show on architecture, and thereafter lead a skindiving squad to the Caribbean in search of sunken treasure. All these projects would not be hurt by his sudden fame on the Paar show, nor would his forthcoming autobiography-Yours Truly, Hugh Downs...
...Hugh Downs may have reached his zenith the night that Paar took the powder. Before Hugh was through (looking straight into the camera, he implored: "Jack, come back"), not a viewer in 5,000,000 could doubt that he had watched a masterful high-wire artist solemnly treading his dangerous way between Paar and NBC. Taking over for Paar was another, even more demanding matter. In the past, affable Hugh served as an excellent, soothing contrast to Paar's suppressed frenzy and suavely spread oil on troubled waters. Without Paar, only the oil remained. Filling in for the boss...
...Reason Why. Son of a Lima, Ohio tire and battery dealer, 39-year-old Hugh has picked up most of his post-high-school education on his own. On the Paar show he has been the resident intellectual with a passion for explaining things. The night of the walkout, Paar displayed a toy that worked with magnets, and Downs followed up with a detailed revelation about the existence of positive and negative magnetic attractions. Once Paar told how he had almost tipped over on water skis, whereupon Downs took two minutes to discourse on the mechanics of water skiing. Paar...
...basic training course and got a medical discharge.) During an eleven-year stretch with NBC in Chicago, he got into TV, announced for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, followed that with 894 hours on Arlene Francis' Home show in New York. In addition to his night work on the Paar show, he runs a daytime TV game called Concentration, also has a weekend post on radio's Monitor...
Much of this evidently irritates Jack Paar, and the two men have had several brushes on the air. (Paar: "I never embarrass people, do I, Hugh?" Downs, softly: "Yes, Jack, you do.") Since Paar, in the words of a onetime buddy, "needs obeisance the way a diabetic needs insulin," Hugh Downs may not be able to go on serving the master indefinitely. But new horizons are beckoning. This week, turning to acting, Hugh Downs is in Hollywood taping an episode in NBC's Riverboat series. Title of the show: The Night of the Faceless...