Word: carsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles garage, he starred in NBC's three-year-old hit series Chico and the Man. He had just signed a multiyear $1 million contract with Las Vegas' Caesars Palace. He was negotiating film deals with Warner's and Universal. He had filled in for Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show; more such appearances were in the works. And at the age of 22, he attained one of the highest status roles in show business when he performed for the incoming President at last month's Inaugural gala in Washington...
Many Americans get their ideas of social kissing from the television talk shows, which are orgies of lipsmacking. The rituals can be intricate. On Johnny Carson's late-night show, for example, female guests almost invariably kiss Carson: they then confront the question of whether to kiss Announcer Ed McMahon as well. Usually, they do, since McMahon has been elevated over the years from the status of hired help to that of deputy executive star. But what if Doc Severinsen is sitting...
...winter that is hurting the economy is also bringing suffering and tragedy to countless Americans. Two elderly men, Pinkney Carson, 66, and Herman Jackson, 62, were found frozen to death in unheated rooms in a New York City residential hotel. A furnace boiler had failed, and the men had huddled under thin blankets as water froze in glasses and ice formed on the cracked plaster of their tenement. In rural Georgia, three young brothers, Timmy Schuler, 11, Brian, 9, and Kirt, 7, romped on a pond covered with ice that had come South with the Northern winter. Timmy...
Although the officers have declined to confirm Carson's appearance, in a statement last week Carson said he is "very thrilled and flattered" to accept the award and that he is "looking forward to coming back to Harvard to spend...
...recent years, Carson has divided his time between hosting the "Tonight Show" and appearing in his own nightclub act. Taylor's career has spanned four decades, and includes such memorable cinematic outings as "Butterfield 8," "Cleopatra," and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...