Word: trish
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...TRISH DWELLEY is the 17-year-old blonde youngster with the warm, blonde voice whose appearance as an unknown schoolgirl on Jack Paar's Tonight TV show in October developed a bolognoid scent when someone remembered that she had sung a year and a half ago with an outfit called the Dream Weavers. While Paar clutched his wounds. Trish grabbed a recording contract with Decca. She might hit the big time, with the help of a cute nickname (short for Patricia), a fine nose for publicity and a sentimental, "There's-a-tree-in-the-meadow" kind...
...grade to become a radio writer and performer, drifted into TV chiefly as a summer replacement. Now, sporting a toupee and a confident sneer of a smile, the new Paar, 39, zanily preens himself, takes pride in guest performers he has shuttled starward (Comedienne Carol Burnett, Singers Diahann Carroll, Trish Dwelley), exchanges mad colloquies with a redhaired, clodpated comedienne named Dody Goodman, and, against his agent's advice, calls himself "the King." (Explains Paar: "Overstatement is very funny.") With an Ernie Kovackian flair for electronic jabberwocky and oddball gimmicks, he throws in some wild Italian movies or stages...