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Wednesday, December 20 THE KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).-It's a mixed bag when Santa Claus (Ed McMahon), Ebenezer Scrooge (Cyril Ritchard) and Bob Cratchit (Tony Tanner) join their dancing hostess on "The Mitzi Gaynor Christmas Show...
Suddenly the silent wake erupted in pandemonium. Helicopters whirled in upon the village. Out poured 36 South Vietnamese in camouflage tiger suits, feet bare and guns blazing. Accompanied by U.S. Navy Lieut. Bernard F. McMahon Jr. and yelling at the top of their lungs, the raiders charged into the gathering and kidnaped ten of the Viet Cong brass. Then they fought their way out past the remaining Viet Cong and, with the aid of hovering helicopter gunships, reached waiting river boats over a mile away. The attacking force's casualties: none...
...former Viet Cong who have defected, the Prews are primarily night raiders who slip into territory in which the Viet Cong feel secure, turning the enemy's hit-and-run tactics back on him. "We operate where the Viet Cong haven't been bothered before," explains McMahon. "They don't dare sleep in their houses any more. They sleep in the fields." His favorite story is of the Viet Cong who came back to his hut at dawn with his rifle slung over his back, whistling at the mischief he had done that night, only to find...
...problem with TV Director Dick Carson, who is Johnny's 37-year-old brother, nor with Announcer McMahon, who is one of Johnny's closest friends, despite gossip to the contrary. On the other hand, Carson did fire Tonight Producer Art Stark, who was also a close friend and associate for eleven years. Explains McMahon: "Art was more fixed in his idea of the show. Johnny has a freer idea-more explosive." Staffers say that Carson insisted on format changes-chiefly bits that would allow him to get out of his chair for more skits and business with...
...Johnny gets angry at ineffectual, inefficient people who don't do their job properly," says McMahon. "It bugs him when people don't pull their oar." Sometimes it bugs him on the air. Not long ago, when some stagehands were chattering while Carson was on, the star turned and snapped coldly: "Are you fellows through...