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TIME Collection The best mentions of Johnny Carson in TIME's Archive...
TIME Cover Carson made TIME's cover...
...Life in Pictures A photoessay on the life of Johnny Carson...
TIME Archive Johnny Carson in the pages of TIME over the years...
...What prolonged the media attention, other than the reach of the star's eminence and the need to fill air time in a slow news week, was the enigma of Carson. Millions saw and liked him 150 times a year, yet he steadfastly hoarded the essence of his personality. "If the conversation edges toward areas in which he feels ill at ease or unwilling to commit himself," wrote Kenneth Tynan, who interviewed Carson for a 1977 New Yorker profile reprinted in the book Show People, "burglar alarms are triggered off, defensive reflexes rise around him like an invisible stockade...