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...presence of two colonels, one light colonel, a major, a captain, two lieutenants, several Jeep-mounted machine guns, a Jeep-mounted 106-mm. recoilless rifle. Could this be the real thing? Not exactly. In the middle of the armed mob was old Veni Vidi Video himself-Jack Paar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Veni Vidi Video | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

With him was shard-voiced Comedienne Peggy Cass, taping a TV show with U.S. officers and soldiers as guests. Maintaining his most serious facial expression -his Marlon Brandenburg look-Paar stole sidewise glances across the border into curtainsville, wondering whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Veni Vidi Video | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

Reds would liven up the show with one of their water-throwing vehicles (they did not). Paar had decided earlier that ''because the Berlin crisis warrants sober consideration, we intend to treat it just that way." Back home on Capitol Hill. Congressmen snorted "shocking" and ''intolerable"; the Pentagon split all five sides and promptly removed one Berlin-based officer, admonished a second. Quipped Paar, "All I can say is it's going to get a hell of a rating for that show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Veni Vidi Video | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

Warren, Ohio, Packard Music Hall: Under the Yum-Yum Tree, with Hugh (one under Paar) Downs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Aug. 11, 1961 | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...their performances that there are some places they try hard to avoid, such as 1) any auditorium with cupids on the walls, although "Bobby Darin might not mind it," says Gottlieb; 2) Las Vegas, a place "I would gladly join an organization to eradicate"; and 3) the Jack Paar Show, which "is like listening to a Methodist minister who has had four martinis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Night Clubs: The Faculty | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

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