"Everybody kept saying it," Sammy Davis Jr. chortled. "Don't do so many shows, get off the TV. Don't do so much, sit down, go home, don't over expose yourself. But I kept saying, 'No, man,' and I kept going, and now look what happened."
What happened was that Davis over exposed himself into one of show business' biggest deals. Last week he signed a 13-to-18-week contract with NBC making him the first Negro to enjoy what the trade covetously calls "the Gleason treatment." Like Jackie Gleason on CBS, Davis will have control of...
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