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Author Douglas-who originally had the book privately printed and sent to some 400 friends-is a weathered Janizary in the gag profession, whose sultans have been Bob Hope, Red Skelton, George Gobel, Jimmy Durante and, for the past twelve years, Jack Paar. Although Paar has announced that Douglas will be dropped when his contract runs out this month ("You have misused me and your expense account"), Jack has plugged the book, which was also aided by the flack magic of Manhattan Pressagent David Green. Result: last week a lot of people were being tickled by such blunt, Douglas-made...
Well Adjusted? The man who turns out such iridescent pap has also given the Paar show many of its permanent gags, including the bit in which balls of various size talk to each other (a pingpong ball will say to a golf ball: "Mabel, you've really got to give up sweets"). A lanky (5 ft. 11½ in., 170 Ibs.) man with a face like a TV portrait of Dorian Gray, Douglas privately fights a hopeless battle against his reputation as a way-out zany, claims he is just an ordinary, well-adjusted gag writer. He admits having...
...next wife will be. "Princess Margaret, of course," cracks Douglas, but his previous choices are on his mind too. He has netted more than $10,000 in the two months since his book was published and moans: "I can see the ex-wives closing in now." Says Jack Paar: "I think it would be fair to say that Mr. Douglas does all his writing under the influence of money...
...showfolk, the shape of success may be a name in lights, a signature on a contract, a kind review. In the case of a witty Italian golf pro named Guido Panzini, it was a phone call from the U.S. Immigration Service. "We've been watching the Jack Paar Show," an immigration official told NBC. "Where can we find this guy Panzini? We've got no record of his port of entry...
...still going strong back in Shor's one winter afternoon of 1958. This time it drew a delighted audience in Funnyman Jonathan Winters (TIME, Oct. 13), who was scrabbling about in unquiet desperation, trying to scare up some good acts for his stint as host on the Paar show. He invited Harrington...