People: Sep. 22, 1961

Winging off to Paris in a cloud of dustups, TV's Jack Paar still could not understand why the folks back home took so dim a view of his Berlin border antics.

"Contrary to that of my own country," he sulked, "the West German press was bowled over by the reporting I've done on the Berlin situation." Sample rave, from Berlin's B.Z.: "Go back to the U.S., Mr. Jack Paar. We don't want to see you here any more."

To mend a fence allegedly destroyed by the Redcoats in 1778, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn...

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