Jack Paar, who kept millions of Americans up past their bedtimes as the mercurial host of the "Tonight" show in the late '50s and early '60s and set the standard for the talk-show format with his ...

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The headlines were blacker than the Congo—and why not? The combatants, after all, were a lot more famous than Gizenga, or even Adlai Stevenson. They were Jack Paar and Ed Sullivan, two of TV’s major ...

“Five-four-three-two-one.” Announcer Hugh Downs did the Canaveral countdown, then launched his rocket: “Here’s Jack!” Into public view again loomed Jack Paar, returning to his bereft nighttime ...

Jack Paar, the man who made late-night television talk shows a national institution, died this week. He now adds another "late" to his name, which seems sadly redundant. An anarchist in the corporate ...

NEW YORK - Jack Paar, the smart-alec comic who pioneered late-night talk on "The Tonight Show" in the 1950s and paved the way for Johnny Carson and others before walking away from television while ...

In November 1958, the brilliant composer, concert pianist and outré humorist Oscar Levant, then under medical supervision, appeared live on NBC’s “Tonight” show with Jack Paar in front of millions of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jack Paar, the smart-alec comic who pioneered late-night talk on ‘‘The Tonight Show'' in the 1950s and paved the way for Johnny Carson and others before walking away from television ...