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...Midnight Idol," your cover story on the Johnny Carson phenomenon and on television in general [May 19], was excellent. Carson is a refreshing breeze in what is literally a wasteland, with the exception of an occasional documentary or sports event...
...rose from her chair, muttering, "That's not so funny, McGee!" With that, she swept into the kitchen to brew a pot of coffee. And no doubt to ponder the mysterious equations of show business that have enabled her son John to become the nation's midnight idol by telling silly jokes like that...
Like the late Maxwell E. Perkins, his editing idol, Thomas is famous for close rapport with his authors: "Some you get to know so well that you are aware of what they are going to say before you read their manuscripts." In the Manchester dispute, Thomas learned that rapport can sometimes turn sour. In 1955, Thomas helped persuade a bedridden Senator John Kennedy to turn a couple of his historical essays into a book, Profiles in Courage. He later edited Bobby Kennedy's account of his experiences with the McClellan crime committee investigations, The Enemy Within. But after...
...most of the parts represent triumphs of casting. An Earth Mother is easier to fantasize than to film, but Barbara Jefford looks and acts the part enormously. Maurice Roeves is glamorous to an extent that no reader will have visualized Stephen Daedalus--vaguely Beatle-ish with a matinee idol's jaw--but he speaks Stephen's lines and thoughts with great intelligence...
Heroes, however, are not always easy to pick. One of Stone's early miscalculations was Jackie Robinson dolls-which were unaccountably outsold by Rival Joe DiMaggio dolls in Harlem stores. Now, with camp idol Batman beginning to fade, Licensing is going back to the locker room for more durable names. Not long ago, the company got French Diver Jacques Cousteau to give his name to a line of underwater gear. As for tennis and the USLTA, says Stone, they "will outlive...