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...Letterman honed his style as a phone-show host on a Muncie, Ind., radio station. "It was around the time of Watergate," he says, "and most of our callers thought homosexuals and people from Jupiter were behind it all." In 1975 he moved to Los Angeles and began writing and performing comedy. After exposure on Mary Tyler Moore's 1978 variety show ("The producer kept wanting me to dress up in a gopher suit and dance"), Letterman won bookings on The Tonight Show, first as a guest and then as a frequent guest host. In 1980, when Johnny Carson...
...living has been good for Letterman. Though his first regular series-a morning comedy-variety show on NBC-ran for only 18 weeks in 1980, it found its loose-limbed form toward the end, won two Emmys (for best host and writing) and became the prototype for Late Night. Upon its demise, NBC signed him, at a reported $750,000 a year, to wait around for a slot to open up. When Tom Snyder was deposed from his eight-year milk run, Letterman was ready to step in. Carson's company co-produces Letterman's show, scanning...
...year-olds. We're very pleased with it." Barry Sand, who brought order to the morning show's early chaos and now produces Late Night, points to unexpectedly long lines of sponsors and ticket holders. Markoe, a dark-haired, Liza-eyed Berkeley graduate who has lived with Letterman since 1977, is proud of the show's progress but eventually plans to move on: "I have things I'd like to write that are not out of the mouth of David Letterman...
...Eagles, who finished second in the East last year with a 13-6-3 record, have struggled so far this season, despite the fact that 22 letterman returned from last year's squad...
...fair, someone from Yale ought to have the chance to say something. Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire--an Eli alumnus and varsity football letterman--recalls his impressions of The Game...