Word: talkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March 16 Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (NBC 9-10 p.m.).-Guests: Bing Crosby and a hatful of his boys, Dancer Peter Gennaro, Talker-Singer Genevieve. Color...
Readers of the sentimental, stylishly drawn 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...
...best known as a torrential talker. His lifelong talkathon has made history and legend: he will talk all night on any subject, at any length (the longer the better), to any audience, on any occasion. His formal speeches have been clocked at a breathless 250 words per minute-every word clearly and distinctly enunciated. He can drown out any competition merely by raising his rasping voice an octave. (His younger sister Frances remembers him as a South Dakota newsboy: "When he stood out there on Main Street in front of the drugstore, holding an armload of St. Paul Dispatches...