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Paar, Jack : Three on a Toothbrush

Doubleday and Company, Incorporated, Garden City, NY, 1965

Original publisher's black and gray cloth binding with white dust wrapper in mylar. Front cover shows a black and white portrait photograph of Jack Paar, his wife Miriam, and daughter Randy. 6" x 8 1/2." 276 pages, complete. Black and white photographic plates, complete. The photographs primarily show Paar on his travels around the world. Dust wrapper and pages and covers of the book are pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. An As New book in an As New dust wrapper. Jack Paar (1918-2004) was an American author, movie actor, comedian, and radio and television personality. Notably, he was the second host of the Tonight Show from 1957-1962. From the front and back flaps of the dust wrapper: "For nearly ten years Jack Paar has travelled across America via television, bringing wit, entertainment (and some lively battles) into millions of homes. Off the screen he has travelled to the far corners of the globe in search of exciting stories. With his wife Miriam and daughter Randy, he has journeyed to Russia, gone on safari in Africa, voyaged up the steamy Amazon, and island-hopped in the South Pacific. Paar's adventures and misadventures have run the gamut from causing a furor at the Berlin wall to being struck by a hit-run rickshaw in Zanzibar. Although Jack took along his sense of humor, this account of his travels reveals a different Paar than the one familiar to television viewers from his five years on the Tonight Show and past three years on his own Jack Paar Show on NBC-TV. This is not the public Paar, the impetuous, outspoken TV personality who was investigated by Congress, sued by Jimmy Hoffa, and feuded with by Walter Winchell and Dorothy Kilgallen. This is the private Paar, a sensitive, adventurous, courageous man who relates his funny, touching, sometimes dangerous experiences with the ability to laugh at almost anything including himself. Here are fascinating stories unearthed in his travels, told by a born story teller with the sharp eye that has won Paar acclaim as one of the outstanding reporters in any medium. Come along with Jack to the South Pacific as he retraces the fateful last mission of Lt. John F. Kennedy's PT boat 109; to Moscow where he was installed in Lenin's suite (especially bugged for honored guests); to Treetops, the unique African hotel in a tree, where Elizabeth II went up one night a Princess and came down in the morning a Queen. Meet the fascinating people he encounters along the way: Dr. Albert Schweitzer at his jungle hospital; the Solomon Island native who helped rescue President Kennedy in World War II; singer Mary Martin at her ranch in the Brazilian jungle; the Australian coastwatcher who witnessed the battle for Guadalcanal hiding out on a mountain peak with a nun; Richard Nixon on fabulous Paradise Island in the Bahamas; the American flier who returned to the Pacific twenty years after the war to pay an old debt. Jack also takes you behind the scenes of his popular NBC show for amusing and candid glimpses of such famous guests as Oscar Levant, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, and others too numerous to mention.". Book. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: As New

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