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...open season on NBC's Tonight show continued, but Johnny Carson was not perceptibly pinked. ABC had already taken a pot shot with Joey Bishop (TIME, April 28). And last week, a new ad hoc hookup, the United Network, took aim with a cap pistol called the Las Vegas Show...
...United show is a two-hour, five-night-a-week club crawl of Vegas, with Comic Bill Dana introducing the pretaped acts. Dana's putative advantage over the competition is that there is more top cabaret talent in Vegas in a week than Carson's New York or Bishop's Los Angeles sees in a month. Trouble is that about half of Dana's ten-odd nightly guests are lounge (or second-string) acts rather than the featured stars...
...churchmen like Eugene Carson Blake say, churches may "properly influence political decisions," then the churches should also support the Government financially...
...JOHNNY CARSON Manhattan
...loneliness now faking it as novels. Fiction is either surrendering its majesties to non-fiction or hybridizing with the new languages of symbolic communication. John Hersey's finest book, his seven novels notwithstanding, is still Hiroshima. Truman Capote freezes a murderous poetry into In Cold Blood. Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us and Lewis Mumford's The City in History inherit the grace and freedom of the novel...