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...Guts." For almost a minute the audience applauded in sympathy. Then suave Announcer Hugh Downs took over and nimbly walked a tightrope between gentlemanly criticism of NBC and gentle disagreement with Paar. Comic Orson Bean came on to denounce the "dehumanized" network that had neither "loyalty" nor "guts." Comic Shelley Berman chimed in with a call for Paar's fans to march on Radio City with pitchforks. Later, Bean struggled to get the thing into better perspective. "Listen," he said, "the network doesn't stink as a network. It stinks as a human relationship outfit...
Soon the human relations outfit had to make a public relations decision: Should the tape containing Paar's walkout and all the criticism of NBC be put on the air? It should, decided NBC, and to show how human it could be, it even invited the public to be sure to tune...
...country took it big. Pro-Paar calls and wires poured into NBC headquarters. Mickey Rooney, who had only recently been involved in a liquid feud with Paar (TIME, Dec. 14), offered Jack a job in a Rooney-owned tire factory. A political-button manufacturer put aside his campaign slogans to produce a lapel ornament that read "Come Back Jack." At Bowie race track, an in-and-outer named Randy-paar, after Jack's daughter, got into the spirit of things and paid...
...York Post editorial promoted Paar to a lonely maverick fighting for the Bill of Rights. And the New York Jour nal American's TV critic, Jack O'Brian, countered Paar's argument that his studio audience had approved of the joke. That, pontificated O'Brian, was no moral judgment; after all, "a majority killed Christ...
...Free." Such bathetic flights aside, it was plain that the Wayside Chapel was not the best possible place for Paar to fight for the Bill of Rights. It was equally plain that NBC had raised a fuss - perhaps in a deliberate attempt to get freewheeling, free-talking Paar into line - over a story far milder than many other 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...