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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through all this she remains a bit of a square and a bit naive; according to her friend and neighbor, Walter Slezak. "A certain line of smut goes past her." She is still awed by some occasions. Before a television appearance,, she had the shakes so badly that Jack Paar had to wrap her in his bathrobe, like a Channel swimmer. But most of the time, she is unshakable and very much in charge of things. "If I were having a frontal lobotomy," she says, "I'd tell them how to do it, like 'try going in through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: BROADWAY | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...Berkeley, is agin' atheism, agnosticism, romanticism, rationalism, humanism, positivism, existentialism and cubism. He is agin' progressive educators. Method actors, permissive parents, Vedantists, Taoists, Zen Buddhists and Bohemians. Getting personal, he is agin' Jean Jacques Rousseau, Arthur Schopenhauer. Walt Whitman, Alfred Kinsey. Adlai Stevenson, Aldous Huxley, Jack Paar, Caryl Chessman, Erich Fromm, Boris Pasternak, Charles Van Doren, Tennessee Williams, Françoise Sagan, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Archibald MacLeish, Albert Camus. Samuel Beckett, D. T. Suzuki and James F. Powers. He is also agin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Craven Idol | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...year-old mother of five who started out as a comedienne only six years ago, she now makes $4,000 a week haunting the U.S. nightclub circuit. She plays Texas Guinan in Elia Kazan's movie Splendor in the Grass, and has been nationalized by Jack Paar (28 appearances). Despite the cash struggle going on between Paar and Ed Sullivan, she performed last week on the Paar show, even though she is scheduled to tape a Sullivan show this week. Currently she is at Greenwich Village's Bon Soir, an underground cigarette oven so sophisticated, she claims, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: Killer Diller | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...like borscht, and can you imagine London enshrouded in a borscht fog?" As if carried away with the notion, the network presented Dave Garroway's Today show against something magenta that could only have been a borscht sky. And at the other end of Color Day, The Jack Paar Show-which is tinted nightly and which in more than three years has remained immensely entertaining-seemed much the same, on or off-color; the main added interest lies in Paar's multihued wardrobe and in seeing how well female guests have had their hair dyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Pigments of the Imagination | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...Color Day, U.S.A."- by NBC decree. From Continental Classroom (6-7 a.m. local time) to The Jack Paar Show (11:15 p.m.-l a.m., E.S.T.), a record 90% of the network's offerings will be in color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Feb. 10, 1961 | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

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