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...draws. New York Giant Runner Tucker Frederickson was out with torn ligaments in his right knee. Having just recovered from a similar injury to his left knee, he was so gloomy that he was threatening to quit football. A wrecked knee cartilage has also sidelined New York Jets Emerson Boozer and Matt Snell; a dislocated shoulder stopped Baltimore Colt End Raymond Berry; broken bones have benched Giant Tackle Jim Moran and Clem Daniels, top rusher of the A.F.L.-leading Oakland Raiders. Kansas City Linebacker E. J. Holub, a veteran of seven previous knee operations faces surgery again-this time...
...explains Ringo, "have had the most hectic lives. We have got almost anything money can buy. But when you can do that, the things you buy mean nothing after a time. You look for something else, for a new experience. It's like your Dad going to the boozer and you want to find out what
...says Carson, "I get annoyed when people tag me as a loner. Jackie Gleason loves to mix with people, so they say he's a boozer. You can't win. Because I don't like cocktail parties, some writers translate this to mean 'Carson is hostile to people.' " If he is not precisely hostile, he at least shares a celebrity's distrust of strangers-and distrust sometimes seeps over into contempt. Johnny and Joanne are people who do not need people. "Johnny," says McMahon, putting it mildly, "is not overly outgoing or affectionate...
Word came that Brobdingnagian Boozer Jackie Gleason, 49, would be dropping by to help open the Lutheran Church's Youth Conference in Miami Beach. Suddenly there were righteous snorts all over Convention Hall. "He is not the kind of person," harrumphed one delegate, to be associated with 8,000 impressionable young Lutherans. Nonsense, replied Theologian J. Benjamin Bedenbaugh: "Why, Jesus spent more time with the Jackie Gleasons of his day than with the professors of theological seminaries." About 300 delegates canceled out, but when the bibulous Great One finally appeared, the others gave him a standing ovation...
...Gleason, and where audiences might have arrived expecting a million laughs from the most celebrated buffoon ever to rise through U.S. television, they leave with a single, if surprised, reaction: inside the master jester, there is a masterful actor. Gleason, the storied comedian, egotist, golfer, and gourmand, mystic, hypnotist, boozer and bull slinger, is now emerging as a first-rank star of motion pictures...