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May 21, 1979 Vol. 11 No. 20

Johnny Carson's Roast

May 21, 1979

Cover Story

Johnny Carson's Roast

Friars and Celebrity Friends Try to Roast a Not-So-Lame Duck Named Johnny Carson

Pg. 36

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Table of Contents

Articles

Move Over, Maggie Trudeau, Wherever You Are—Maureen Mcteer Is Marching on the Pm's Mansion

Pg. 42

A Soviet Defector Wooed Her at Taxpayers' Expense, Ex-Hooker Judy Chavez Claims

Pg. 44

Ralph Moody May Travel the Road to Riches in a Diesel Car That Gets 84 Miles Per Gallon

Pg. 49

What Does a Civil Servant Get for Turning Down a Raise? Andy Bavas Got Unemployment

Pg. 53

The Big Name in U.S. Women's Shot Put Is the Mighty Maren Seidler

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Terry Jean Moore Fights to Keep Her Baby in a Florida Prison

Pg. 63

A Pig Aphrodisiac Boosts Pork Production (and Seems to Have a Strange Effect on Humans Too)

Pg. 67

'Baryshnikov Has the Publicity,' Boasted Fernando Bujones, Then 19; 'I Have the Talent'

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Blondie's An 'it,' She Insists, but Everyone Is Wild About Debbie Harry

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Civilization Is Catching Up with Primitive Tribes, but Lunda Gill Is Getting There First

Pg. 87

Why the Pantyhose Are in the Freezer—and Other Helpful Hints

Pg. 93

Psychiatrist David Kessler Comes 'out of the Medicine Cabinet' to Organize a Gay Doctors' Movement

Pg. 101

Her Parents' Divorce Shocked Gabrielle Reem; Now She Helps Other Kids Pick Up the Pieces

Pg. 104

Frank Zappa Mothers One Invention Too Many, and Furious Jewish Princesses Bite Back

Pg. 111

Women Buy, but Men Dominate the Fashion World: Then Along Came Diane Von Furstenberg

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An Ex-Professor Tells the Record Industry to Go 'digitize' Itself

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The Tart-Tongued Daughter from 'Maude' Works on a New Image with a New Husband's Help

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Now It's Really Prime Time for Miss Jean Brodie and Her Creator, Muriel Spark

Pg. 142

The Case of the Wandering Navel, or How Virginia O'hare Won An $854,000 Malpractice Suit

Pg. 146

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Mailbag

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Lookout

Pg. 84

Chatter

Pg. 148

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