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...Young had forecast, a terrible wind came up last week at the conference- championship game against the Washington Redskins. The runner he had standing ready was 5-ft. 7-in. Joe Morris of Syracuse University, and the defense consisted hugely of Linebackers Harry Carson, Gary Reasons, Carl Banks and the Most Valuable Player in the National Football League, Lawrence Taylor. The Giants won the game, 17-0, and the playoffs, 66-3, maiming two opposing quarterbacks in the process...
...MOST VISIBLE FREE-FOR-ALL The battle that followed the late news, as Joan Rivers, David Brenner, Dick Cavett and Jimmy Breslin fought for the insomniac talk-show audience claimed by Johnny Carson and David Letterman...
Marriage and alimony jokes have all but become fixtures of his Tonight show monologue, but no kidding, folks, Johnny Carson, 61, is serious about getting married a fourth time. The bean-pole comic's flacks let it be known last week that he has become engaged to Alex Maas, a blond beauty in her mid-30s who has been his live-in for the past year and a half. Carson met Maas on the beach near his Malibu home. No date has been set for the wedding. It is understandable if Carson is in no hurry to retie the knot...
Brady said another less scientific index--"theJohnny Carson indicator"--also offered evidence ofthe president's slide. "When Johnny Carson startsmaking jokes and the people are laughing atReagan, you know he's in trouble," Brady said...
...participants in this nighttime battle royal, however, insist that it is not a duel to the death. "We don't see ourselves as pitted against Johnny Carson," says Barry Diller, chairman of Fox Inc., Rivers' corporate parent. "We're just aiming at improving the performance of the independent stations that carry us." Rivers, who roused Carson's ire last spring when she left for the competition without telling him first, is also sounding a conciliatory note: "My people will watch me; Johnny's people will watch him . . . We can all make it; the pie just...