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<p>Florence Henderson, the actress who played perky mom Carol Brady in the beloved family sitcom, says she once got crabs after a one-night-stand with career politician John Lindsay, who was the mayor of New York City at the time.</p> <p>Henderson, now 77, recounts in her upcoming memoir that she was cheating on her husband during the 1960s, and gave in to her better judgment when her married and unattractive friend put the moves on her over drinks at the Beverly Hills Hotel.</p>

John Lindsay might have been the worst mayor in NYC history. Epitome of the limousine liberal, Lindsay nearly bankrupted the Big Apple. But that hasn't stopped Jon Meacham from lauding Lindsay as "one of the greatest mayors in New York history." The former Newsweek editor bestowed the title on Lindsay on Morning Joe today. Meacham's comment came in the context of grouping Lindsay with Mike Bloomberg as another NYC mayor who didn't deal well with a big snowstorm. But after noting that lapse, Meacham made amends with his GMINYH moniker. After the jump, view the video and a description of...

January 26, 2005 Johnny Carson's Long Symbiosis With New York By SAM ROBERTS If Jack Paar transformed his television studio into Everyman's living room, then his successor, Johnny Carson, transported viewers from their beds or couches to a hip New York nightclub where, with him as their unaffected host, they could be edified but feel perfectly at home even in their jammies. For the first decade of his 30-year reign at the "Tonight" show, Mr. Carson broadcast regularly from Rockefeller Center, which seemed only fitting since the New York he conveyed to the rest of the country was the swinging,...