Word: hosting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Sammy Davis Jr. plays host to Mama Cass Elliott, Roosevelt Grier, Lionel Hampton and Peter Lawford...
This weekend in Yale Bowl, the Elis will have their first real chance to give convincing evidence that predictors were wrong. They will host Dartmouth, now rated second in the East and first in New England. The Indians will be favorites to break Yale's 17-game Ivy League undefeated streak...
Princeton has also been aided by an easy schedule early in the season. It beat Columbia and Cornell, and the Penn, which has suffered a rash of injuries. Saturday, the Tigers will get yet another chance to sharpen their game when they host Brown...
Another major distinction of the Frost show is that a visitor can spiel on as long as he is compelling, and the host does not feel a constant compulsion to bring in disparate guests to hold his audience. Senator Edmund Muskie soloed for 37 minutes. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr.-who rattled off lines like, "I am probably the only living American, black or white, that just doesn't give a damn"-holds the record so far with a run of 39 minutes...
...August, when it first got into the late-night talk show competition, CBS bannered its promotion campaign, "Give the Kid a Break." The kid was Host Merv Griffin, chosen to challenge NBC's champ, Johnny Carson, after clicking on daytime game shows and a syndicated afternoon talk series. By last week, it appeared that the kid was the kind that drooped without daylight...