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...current market prices. He hoped to turn his grass farm into a psychedelic community along the lines of Timothy Leary's dream-dome in Millbrook, N.Y. But the plan went to pot last month when the "narcs" (federal narcotics agents) raided the farm and mowed the grass. "Like wow!" protested one resident hippie...
...joke dies, he waits a second, and then yawns a fine Ed Sullivan "Ho-o-okay. . ." A sudden thought-either his or a guest's-will launch him into an imitation of Jona than Winters imitating an old granny. He can spread his eyes wide open into a wow. Semi-emancipated puritan that he is (he was reared a Methodist), he can, when a guest goes off-color, freeze his face into a blank that shows nothing but eyes and innocence. He is performer and critic, rapping out a whole percussion section of effects to suit a funny line...
Outlandish Guests. To put it all into practice, Johnny launched an afternoon TV variety show, first for a year and a half over WOW-TV in Omaha, then in Los Angeles. "KNXT cautiously presents Carson's Cellar," he used to say. Thirty weeks later, KNXT threw caution and Carson to the winds, and he fetched up as a writer for Red Skelton. One night, during a preshow rehearsal, Skelton got a concussion bonking into a "breakaway" door, and Writer Carson went on in his place. With assurance and finesse, he laid out an ad-lib monologue mocking the economics...
...many posters in the Spring Mobilization peace march headquarters read, "The Original Great Springout--A Megalopolitan Peacepipe Pow-Wow--Saturday, April 15, 1967--Many Smokes and Spring Seasonings--Lites, Kites, Pipes, Rites, Sights, Beads, Reeds, Bells, Shells, Smells, Cells, Kids. Aimals. Flowers, Feathers, Corn, Bananas, Peppers, Seeds, Nuts, Forbidden Fruits, Instruments...