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...Priscilla Goodbody, the imaginary little lady with the big scissors who keeps Johnny Carson from turning too blue? See TELEVISION, Talkathon of Comment...
...neither would the viewers - or so it was supposed. Only a few commentators with clout, including Edward R. Murrow and Eric Sevareid, could get away with expressing sharp personal opinion. And certainly nobody succeeded with blatantly risque humor. This past season, the Smothers Brothers, Rowan and Martin, and Johnny Carson, among others, have waged a deliberate campaign to get sex jokes past the censor - whom Carson sardonically calls "Miss Priscilla Goodbody." But it is in the realm of serious discussion that television's growing maturity really clears the air. "We no longer shut our eyes or shut...
Battle of Talkathons. Much of TV's comment and controversy are heard on the day-and-night conversation shows, which seem to be trying to turn TV into a talkathon. They frantically compete with each other for big-name, talkers. Joey Bishop interviews Ronald Reagan, Carson brings on Ayn Rand, Merv Griffin chats with Bertrand Russell. One night, Dick Cavett has Norman Mailer as his guest, the next night he leads a spirited discussion between James Bald win and Yale Philosopher Paul Weiss...
...speak of his qualifications for the office of the Presidency; he wanted to show that he was a versatile and experienced man, he wanted to show the nation a fresh Nixon. So his initial speech was taken up with an explanation of how he had been on the Johnny Carson show and had spoken of his childhood desire to be a concert pianist at which point Mr. Carson suggested that he play the piano for the people now, an offer which was taken up, and then how he felt a thrill of excitement as he played and then more...
Whether the substance of the assembly will prove as avant-garde as its style remains to be seen. But the World Council's General Secretary Eugene Carson Blake warned that "the ecclesiastical establishment worldwide had better look hard to try to discern what God is now requiring of us as we are disturbed by the rods of anger." Added Ceylon's Pastor Niles: "Everywhere in our world today events are taking place which reveal that God is doing a new thing among...