Word: think
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about 5,000,000 fans - along with happy NBC executives, satisfied advertisers and fellow entertainers whom his show helped to success - think that Jack Paar should be precisely what he is: a first-rate, refreshingly different TV performer who in a single year has come out of nowhere and made a huge hit of a special kind of entertainment. What Paar brings into American living rooms five nights a week is both more and less than a comedy, variety or chatter show - it is a special show business blend that Paartisans consider uniquely satisfying...
...killed by a car. All that comes back to Jack from his tenth year is the death of his best friend. "I went to the funeral,'' he remembers now, "and I didn't know what to do. My heart was breaking, and all I could think of was to break balloons through the service. Then I went home and bawled...
...Noel Coward, she did this, she did that. I said, 'Can you talk about these things?' She said she wanted to be a cook, a creative cook. That's not believable. A good-looking girl with a build wants to be a cook? The audience would think she was lying, that I was lying. It would destroy the naturalness of the show...
Under such pressure, Dr. Sampurnanand craftily conceded that if all 87 ayurveda students wanted to, they could go over en masse to King George Medical College. But the 87 could not achieve unanimity. Furthermore, King George had no room for them and did not think highly of their qualifications anyway. At week's end East was still locked with West in the streets of Lucknow...
Nevertheless, Stepmother Kay determines that Sandra shall go overboard for a suet-mouthed Guardsman, despite the fact that he is much adored by Kay's best friend's wallflower daughter. (Coos Kay: "I do think she's wise not dancing all the time.") Instead, Sandra obstinately falls for a bounder (John Saxon). "First of all," says a friend in explaining Saxon's shortcomings, "he's half Italian." Second of all, he plays the drums in a society orchestra, and third, he is given to vividly detailed descriptions of African fertility dances...