Gorgeous George, M.d.
January, 1973
It was Gorgeous George who almost singlehandedly transformed professional wrestling from a sport to a spectacle; who ushered television out of the electronics laboratory and into the living room. . . . No one who has grown up in the unremitting hothouse glare of the commercial tube will ever be able to imagine how brilliantly those first feeble sparks of video-at-home illuminated the spirit of postwar America. Yet even then, when a simple test pattern was miracle enough to command our rapt atten...
