Alexander King(1899-1965)
Alexander King, by his own admission, had a very checkered career
before becoming racontuer on residence during the Jack Parr years of
"The Tonight Show", enjoying a status similar to that of Myron Cohen
during the early Carson years. A veteran newspaperman turned press
agent, he published his various anecdotes in a series of off-beat books
that were very popular at the time, most notably "May This House Be
Safe from Tigers." Nearly forgotten today, King, who claimed to have
been married five times, was a fixture on the TV talk show circuit from
roughly the mid-1950s until his death in 1965.
