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...cover subject for this week hazards: "General Sarnoff is really a corporal." And then again, the sculpture that Robert Berks did for our cover is bound to evoke an obvious if awful contribution from graffiti fanciers, and so we might as well be the first to say it: "Johnny Carson is a bust...
Pick a Witness. Go on television. Do not choose an educational channel or anything like that. Go for the big Nielsen. A late-night talk show with some sympathetic comedian like Joey Bishop or Johnny Carson is the best. If possible, get on two rival shows, one the day after the other. Spell out why your client was railroaded while the host nods in friendly agreement. This will give viewers the idea that what you are saying must be right...
...elderly woman in Columbus, Neb., turned on her color TV set, tuned in the Tonight show, and settled back to watch Johnny Carson. "And now-here's Johnny!" called Announcer Ed McMahon as the star skipped onstage-fetchingly handsome, slat-thin, loose-limbed, and wrapped in a Continental-cut suit. "My name is Shirley Hoffnagel," he began with eyes laughing, "and I'm here to talk tonight about the wonderful progress that medical science has made in sex-change operations...
...Homer L. Carson knows that there is more to the equations than an occasional misfiring joke. Her son, at 41, is an institution, a cup of bedtime coffee with none of the caffeine removed. "We're more effective than birth control pills," says Carson, improvising a bit on his own slightly leering line that people watch him "through their toes"-that is, lying down in bed. On good nights in midwinter, there might be as many as 10 million viewers, according to Nielsen. But if there are fewer on other nights, Carson at least gets a crack...
Carrying the Las Vegas Show are 125 U.S. channels. In many instances, they are taking a United flyer because the program provides them with free competition against Carson and Bishop just when old movies are scarce and expensive...