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...spot on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. But for many of the up-and-comers who weren't yet on Carson's radar, the first TV stop was a friendlier, more accessible, less-high-pressure showcase run by a former big-band singer and game show host named Merv Griffin...
...show didn't have the cachet or the clout of Carson's. But Griffin and his producers were smart enough to realize that to compete they had to take more chances, and that made him more receptive to some of the era's most groundbreaking new talent. George Carlin and Richard Pryor were little-known stand-up comics performing in the folk and jazz clubs of Greenwich Village in 1965 when scouts from Griffin's show discovered them just weeks apart and booked them on the show. Griffin gave both of them multi-show contracts and had them on regularly...
...compliant Congress. The sooner this Administration and its passive enablers in Congress are out of office, the sooner we will find the means to extricate ourselves from this fiasco. May Bush go back to Texas and never be heard from again except as a very bad history lesson. John Griffin, Walnut Creek, Calif...
...these people? The art- and yacht-buying escapades of hedge fund operators such as Kenneth Griffin of Citadel and Eddie Lampert of ESL Investments grab the headlines. Yet there are more than 9,500 funds managing upwards of $1.74 trillion in assets, according to Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research, Inc. Many of those funds individually run a mere billion or three. This group of hedgies tend to be secretive loners, not prone to trading recipes...
...This transaction provides for an orderly transference of risk between parties,” Griffin said in the statement...