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DIED. Sam Levenson, 68, humorist and matzo-barrel philosopher, whose monologues and bestselling books celebrated the folklore of New York Jewry and gently spoofed the absurdities of modern family life; of a heart attack; in Brooklyn. A teacher of high school Spanish for eleven years, Levenson amused his pupils by recounting tales of his poor but happy childhood and strict but loving parents. ("Our menu at mealtime offered two choices-take it or leave it.") After he turned his classroom routines into a nightclub act, the portly, bow-tied comedian was an instant hit on television and host...
Tempest in an oil barrel...
Illustrated with cartoons by Jack Davis, whose drawings have appeared in Mad for the past 24 years, the report features a barrel-chested, hard-hatted Ashland man wearing the company logo. He explains to two blond, wide-eyed youths the intricacies of revenue figures, operating expenses and tax and depreciation numbers in the course of answering their initial question, "What's Ashland...
...door--the new boyfriend. Behind him stood the man with the gun. "He started to raise it, and I got ready to squeeze one off. But my partner got in the way, and he squeezed one off instead." Added his partner, "All I could see was the barrel of that shotgun--looked this big." Obligingly, one points to the hole in the wall where the bullet hit. Then the gunman fled upstairs--a few minutes later they talked him down to the landing, then wrestled the rifle away from him. "Was the safety off?" "Yeah, turned...
Usually, however, a film is well laundered before the party boss gets to play movie mogul. One director found himself squabbling with censors when he made a comedy about corruption in the wine industry: in one scene a bad barrel was labeled "48," which happened to be precisely the number of years that had passed since the revolution. Was he perhaps implying that the revolution had gone sour too? Another film maker got into trouble when he included a song called Bring Me a Piece of the Moon-during the time that Americans had landed there and the Russians...