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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The New Canaries | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...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 a midget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Guy at the Office Party | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...action, W. Parker Dwelley, Jr. '53, former president of the Taft Club at Harvard, called for "all former Taft Club members still at the University to follow the example of that great American, Robert A. Taft, by working for and actively supporting General Dwight D. Eisenhower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Democratic Group Meets; Republicans Ask for Unity | 9/23/1952 | See Source »

...believe it is one of the assets of the U.S. that you can criticize freely anyone you want, on any point you disagree with him. I am glad that Mr. W. Parker Dwelley has sent his strong objections to the form the course Social Science 111 was conducted, not because I agree with him but because it indicates that there is someone with an independent spirit who takes his trouble to check up on his teachers. However, I don't believe that his self righteous "vomiting feeling in my stomach" is justified by the statistics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A QUESTION OF TASTE | 5/7/1952 | See Source »

...wish to add that Mr. Dwelley has had two (2) opportunities to voice his objections and show his feelings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A QUESTION OF TASTE | 5/7/1952 | See Source »

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