Word: joey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...About a week ago I asked ABC for a little time off," Joey Bishop wisecracked to his studio audience one night last week, "but this is ridiculous." Joey will get the last 13 months of his contract off, ending a hopeless 2½-year challenge to NBC's Johnny Carson. The coup de gráce was the entry of CBS's Merv Griffin into the late-night competition in August. At last count, Johnny was attracting 33% of the audience to Merv's 18% and Joey...
...Joey's permanent replacement will be Dick Cavett, a triumph with the reviewers (TIME, June 20), if not with the ratings in two earlier ABC talk shows. But one was aired mornings, the other in prime evening time, and the hope is that in the late-night slot Cavett will finally find an audience up to his level of sophistication...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Hamming it up as only this pack can do are Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop in Sergeants...
...lusterless after dark; his whoopee all seemed to come from an aerosol can that went poof. In the latest ratings, Carson was more securely than ever the nation's midnight idol, commanding a healthy 37% of the audience, compared with a measly 15% for Griffin. ABC's Joey Bishop is third, with 12%. The remaining 36% of the viewers are watching old movies and other shows scheduled by independent channels and network-affiliated holdouts...
...Joey Gargan was an assistant U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts from 1961 to 1964, when he entered private practice in Boston. If Gargan failed to advise Kennedy to report his accident promptly, it was not through ignorance of motor vehicle laws; he had handled countless claims arising from car accidents. Gargan has been generally respected for his competence as a lawyer, yet the Kennedy family has absorbed almost all of his loyalty and attention. The son of Rose Kennedy's sister Mary Agnes Fitzgerald and Joseph F. Gargan, a prominent Lowell, Mass., attorney and World War I hero, Joey Gargan...