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...comic strip, On Stage (Chicago Tribune-New York News syndicate), thought they recognized its new character, a late-night TV talker named Bud Birdie. The readers were right. From the top of his toupee to the tips of his well-bitten fingernails, Birdie was a reasonable facsimile of Jack Paar. And although Birdie's troubles were planned and drawn more than three months ago, his first appearance last week happened to be timed perfectly. Just as Birdie announced that he could not quit, so did "Weeping Jack" Paar...
After the Paar walkout that was heard round the world (TIME, Feb. 22), things looked bad for a while. General David Sarnoff, jeered the Herald Tribune's Columnist Art Buchwald, had ordered "NBC's First Territorial Lawyers' Brigade to surround Paar's house and dig in. All leaves of the Fourth Airborne Public Relations Division were canceled, and every vice president under the age of 70 was mobilized and armed with statements." Then Jack finally decided to take a vacation in Hawaii and Hong Kong-but for some reason, he went by way of Florida. Somehow...
Whatever happens when he returns, now that he has achieved the ultimate and made the funnies, it will be tough for Paar to top himself. But Bud Birdie (so named because a birdie is better than par) may do it. In future installments of On Stage, Cartoonist Leonard Starr has his nice but emotional hero ("I'm fighting the elements now!") plagued by offstage intrigue, and trying to figure out which of his official family is leaking unkind gossip to the columnists. Is it the lovable hayseed comedian, Tex McPrairie? Is it the suave announcer? Will Bud ever find...
...promptly suggested that it might repair the cup. A conciliatory letter from President Kintner reminded Paar of the other people on his show who were affected by his walkout. "I hope you will think of all of them, Jack, and decide to come back to us." At the same time, NBC was insisting that it would hold Paar to his fiveyear, $200,000-a-year contract...
After the war, Joey went back to the small clubs until Sinatra caught him one night in Greenwich Village. At Frank's suggestion, he was booked into the big time. Stints on Jack Paar's TV show and CBS's freewheeling Keep Talking got him national attention and a chance to be the kind of comedian he likes-a sad-faced funnyman whose effortless humor seems spontaneous but is the product of endless preparation. "People don't guffaw just looking at me," says he. "I have to compensate for that. I read obituary columns. I call...