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...Wednesday night show, Jack Paar considered using the venerable joke, debated with himself (as he later recalled) about whether it was fit for the air waves, won the debate, and proceeded to tell the story. At 10 p.m., the taping of his show completed, Paar went home to Bronxville. And that was the moment when history pointed a relentless finger at Ernest Lee Jahncke Jr., a broadcasting veteran (for 15 years vice president at ABC) who had been brought to NBC after the quiz scandals to serve as director of the network's Department of Standards and Practices...
Guardian Jahncke viewed the Paar tape and decided stanchly that the 4.J,-min. se quence must come out. After a quick check with still-unnamed NBC superiors, but without a word to Jack Paar, the tape cutters started snipping. When the show went on the air, the Wayside Chapel, the water closet and Narrator Paar were replaced by a news broadcast. But what followed made all other news - even wine, women, and cash for disk jockeys, even the French atomic blast in the Sahara -seem insignificant on Page...
...Leaving." After a day's restraint (he merely called NBC's action "idiotic") Paar appeared for the taping session of his next show. For the first 15 minutes, there was business as usual - bright, light, laugh ing. But soon after the show was due to "go network" and spread from New York cross country, Paar's smile petered out. "All right," he asked. "Are you ready...
...story, said Jack, although he considered it inoffensive. But no one had even consulted him, and now his public would think that he had committed "some terrible obscenity." Still the network would not let him clear his name by running the censored tape. The corners of Paar's mouth began to turn down. His voice broke. His eyes leaked. He had wrestled with his soul for 30 sleepless hours, he said through half-suppressed tears, and he had finally come to a lonely decision: "There must be an easier way to make a living. I am leaving the Tonight...
...seven veils cut from the film. "Thus the actress makes millions marketing her nudity, but doesn't want her son victimized by this market," said the priests, adding that thousands of other ragazzi would not be so protected when the flick hits the nabes. ¶ According to Jack Paar, who all but grew a beard when he took his Tonight show to Havana last year, many things that have been written in the U.S. press about Castro's Cuba "simply weren't true." The U.S. has been "needling that guy from the very beginning," said Paar...