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...baseman owns a chain of "My Place" hair-styling salons for men. After a half-season of feuding with the Houston Astros' management, Mod Joe abruptly quit and came home to New York. His long, carefully shaped locks, embellished by a partial hairpiece, showed to advantage on the Merv Griffin Show, and Joe made his singing debut with a creditably crooned version of Around the World. But he admitted that his heart is still in the dugout. "I love playing in the Astrodome," said Pepitone. "It's the biggest hair dryer I've ever been under...
...commercial looked like a Truman Capote party. There on the screen were 100 political, social and entertainment personalities brought together by the National Urban Coalition to sing Let the Sun Shine In. Youth was represented by the cast of Hair. Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young and James Farmer added soul. Merv Griffin, Chet Huntley and Johnny Carson mixed with Myrna Loy and Henry Fonda...
...latest hassle involved a visit to CBS's Merv Griffin Show by Chicago Seven Defendant Abbie Hoffman. In mid-taping, the Yippie peeled off his rawhide jacket to reveal a shirt that seemed to be cut from an American flag. After consulting its legal department, CBS decided that there was "the possibility of violation of law as to disrespect and desecration of the flag." It edited the tape to blank out Hoffman's image for the 51-minute interview...
...always renowned for political audacity, was under attack for censoring two separate peace pleas taped by Carol Burnett and Elke Sommer for the network's late-night Merv Griffin Show. Both were emotional appeals for antiwar letters to be sent to Mrs. Martin Luther King, who planned to deliver them to the President as part of a movement called People for Peace. After Burnett's bitter protest, the network apologized, saluting her as "one of the great stars in the CBS family." Like the Smothers Brothers...
...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...