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...Eugene Carson Blake, D.D., Stated Clerk of The United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A...
...Today Carson's average 8,700,000 audience tops Paar's highest rating by 300,000, and his estimated $19 million in sponsor billings this year will edge Paar's top by $4,000,000. Carson makes it look so easy that others have been prompted to get in on the act. ABC has been running a competitor, Nightlife, for almost three months, and Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. syndicates Merv Griffin, a cheery-faced former singer who was once mentioned as a Paar replacement. The net effect of both shows to date on Carson...
Mitey Master. What makes Carson click where others clank? Besides having a pleasant, offhand personality, he's on top of his show all the time. He can neatly put a restraining ring through the nose of a bore, guide and sharpen the performance of an amateur-like the girls' national skateboard champion who appeared last week. He is a first-rate ad-libber, and has apparently stored away every joke he ever heard...
...Carson started in show business in his home town of Norfolk, Neb., where at twelve he appeared as The Great Carsoni, the mitey master of magic and ventriloquism (he can still do both). After graduation as a journalism major from the University of Nebraska, he became a disk jockey, was a writer for CBS's Red Skelton, then quipster-quiz-master for ABC's afternoon Who Do You Trust? And in his five years of squeezing comedy out of contestants, Carson found just the honing he needed for The Tonight Show...
...Carson's NBC salary is more than $200,000, and during his July vacation from the show he fleshes this out with performances at Las Vegas' Sahara Hotel for an estimated $25,000 a week. He lives in Manhattan with Second Wife Joanne and his three sons by his first marriage. By normal star standards, he is a most relaxed, easygoing man. But the frustrations do build, and he works them out on a dizzying number of interests: scuba diving, fishing, boating, drums, weights, photography, flying, astronomy, and currently singing and playing the guitar. Confesses Carson: "My threshold...