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WHEN injured New York Jet Quarterback Joe Namath was wheeled into a press conference at New York City's Lenox Hill Hospital last week, he wore two smiles. One was his own. The other was pinned onto his shirt. It was a Smilie button, bearing a simple face that in recent months has become one of the most familiar in the U.S.: a pair of oval black eyes over a happy upturned mouth...
...minded scrambler played hookey instead of football in the first pre-season game because the Giants management would not give him a large loan (paying interest on such a loan while putting the money to work is one way to beat the tax man). With the Jets' Joe Namath hospitalized by a knee injury, it appeared for a while that pro football fans in New York would have no first-string quarterback playing for them this fall. A meeting between Tarkenton and Giants President Wellington Mara clarified matters. Tarkenton would receive a salary reported...
...evening, introduced by a nervous Gary Grant, her onetime leading man. Highlight No. 3: Pearl Bailey hamming it up in her Hello, Dolly! number with what may have been the highest priced male chorus line of all time: Sammy Davis Jr., Rock Hudson, Jack Lemmon, Greg Morris, Joe Namath, David Niven and Don Rickles. "At the finish," reported Women's Chairman Rosalind Russell, "people were crying, throwing their programs in the air, standing in ovation. The whole thing was glorious...
...Mussolini or Orson Welles on films, Cavett lavishes upon his best guests a combination of warmth, informed intelligence and swift wit. His thought process is like a Grimes light on a patrol car, turning incessantly, flashing quips and telling comments on all manner of subject matter. When Joe Namath said that a nude scene in his latest movie had been done in very good taste, Cavett commented, "I'm sorry to hear that," then brightly switched to something more lighthearted: "Have you ever been offered a bribe?" He asked Actress Sally Kellerman, who is 5 ft. 10½ in., how tall...
...four-letter argot is flung against a wide variety of institutions and individuals-among them the New York Times (which once unwittingly carried an ad for Screw), the TV networks, J. Edgar Hoover, Billy Graham and Richard Nixon. On the tamer side, there have been interviews with Joe Namath and Timothy Leary and an in-bed session with John Lennon and Yoko...