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Hard Work. Paar's peculiar combination of casual intensity and wit has caused one fan to call him "a cross between Billy Graham and Fred Allen." He cracks that he is "Lawrence Welk without music." Not far beneath his self-deprecating, unruffled exterior is a sensitive, often defensive man whose slight-looking build (6 ft., 174 Ibs.) shoulders a sizeable chip. Proclaiming his motto to be "Leave everybody to hell alone," Paar lives quietly with his second wife, a daughter, 8, and swimming pool in suburban Bronxville, N.Y. "I'm so lovable," Jack says. ". . . There have been...
...view of the links. Shakespeare Scholar Frank Baxter will bring his relentless cheer to a new cycle of Telephone Time playlets, and Voice of Firestone will enter its 30th year on the air. Most of the hardy favorites will stay on: Mickey Mouse Club, Wyatt Earp, Ozzie & Harriet, Lawrence Welk, Mike Wallace, Disneyland. To help pull out all these new stops, fledgling ABC has sunk $30 million into a new Hollywood TV center. By the beginning of 1958 the chain will have added ten new affiliates, thus strongly affecting the season's rating picture...
...still hear 'Who will watch ETV when I Love Lucy is on?' More people watched a forum on education on KUHT one Monday night than could have been crowded into all the public-school auditoriums in Houston. And they could have seen Robert Montgomery or Lawrence Welk instead...
...guttersnipery. Soupy also fits cozily into the part of such irregular guests as a hooch-soaked Private Eye who couldn't find a clue in a roomful of corpses, an effete cowboy named The Lone Stranger, or a goateed bop musician who faints at the mention of Lawrence Welk...
This innocuous formula evokes the amateurish fun of a party at the local dancing class. Critics who do not like it can only lump it with the corny appeal of ABC's Bandleader Lawrence Welk. Yet for the last three summers, the Murrays have won a bigger share of the TV audience than the winter shows they replaced, and last fortnight they out-Trendexed (by 11.6 to 7.8) Bandleader Welk himself, one of TV's best drawing cards...