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...EDUCATION OF SONNY CARSON...
...young kids sit on a stage, squirming in the summer heat as some starchy board of education types present them with scholastic awards. One old caricature, decked out in clothes more appropriate to a stroll on a widow's walk, extols an essay written by young Sonny Carson. She tells the audience all about how wonderful it is that this young Negro boy has raised himself up out of the slums, written about a few of his experiences, and set himself on the path of success. The irony begins to bead up like heavy drops of sweat. The camera...
...that exegesis saves? God forgive that pun." Cavett was of course show biz obsessed. He met Carrie Nye McGeoy, his future wife, while acting in a New Haven amateur production. After graduation he hung around Broadway theaters, cadged a job with Jack Paar as a jokesmith, wrote for Johnny Carson and tried his own nightclub act as a stand-up comic...
...only a minimum of station breaks (i.e., plugs for Cavett). Cavett is no one-shot, gag-Line comedian but a man whose turn of mind brings intelligence and humor to bear on childhood memories and adolescent contretemps (mostly sexual), and produces marvelously generous yet accurate assessments of his rivals (Carson, Paar, et al.) and acknowledged betters (Groucho Marx and Woody Allen). May the book's Nielsen rating be higher than Cavett's is at the moment. "A.T. Baker
Female integration into formerly male units is not easy. As a former battalion commander at Fort Carson, Colo., explains: "A soldier's day doesn't end at 5 p.m. There are assignments like guard duty with a rifle, charge of quarters, and special police handling of burly drunks." Women formerly rose through the ranks only within the WAC. Now they are competing directly with men for promotions. The seeding into various Army branches of senior WAC officers, some of whom have been lieutenant colonels for more than a decade, is especially difficult. Many fear a hostile reception...