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Janus has spent ten years and $20,000 of his own money traveling around the country to interview top comedians and give them psychological tests. So far, he has tested 76 Jewish humorists, including Milton Berle, George Burns, David Brenner, Sid Caesar, David Steinberg and Mort Sahl. Most, he says, were ambivalent about their Jewishness and compulsively turned to humor to ward off their private demons. As Joan Rivers told Janus, "If I were marching to the ovens, I'd be telling jokes all the way." What makes them funny, says Janus, "is their pain...
...saving, waiting for the proverbial rainy day that invariably follows a period of rising prices. But the consumer seems to be becoming more like a Latin American, who spends out of fear that he had better buy it now or it will only cost more tomorrow. Says Marvin Brenner, owner of the Casual Village women's clothing chain in New Orleans: "People know that there will be another minimum wage hike in January, and it will cause wages to go up all along the line. The minimum wage very quickly affects clothing prices, so people are buying in large part...
...clouds became cloudier: who was Marut? All that can be ascertained is that from 1917 to 1920 he published the inflammatory journal Der Ziegel-brenner (The Brickmaker), which raged against all human institutions. Because Marut seemed unaccountably free from wartime censorship, and because he managed to escape before being shot for his revolutionary activities, the rumor arose that he was protected by the German regime. Decades later in Mexico, Marut-Torsvan-Croves-Traven seems to have hinted mischievously that he was the illegitimate son of Kaiser Wilhelm and an American actress. What is so absurd about this roguish fancy...
...authors ensure that the paper will be taken seriously by scientists around the world. The team, which did its work at Cambridge, England, was led by Nobel Laureate Francis Crick, who with James Watson determined the structure of life's master molecule, DNA. His co-workers were Sydney Brenner, who discovered the "start" and "stop" signals in the genetic code; Aaron Klug, who first determined the crystalline structure of transfer RNA (tRNA), the molecule that brings amino acids to the ribosome for assembly into protein; and George Pieczenik, 32, a biochemist now at Rutgers University in New Brunswick...
...fast trip left the sensitive Prinze off balance. A close friend, Comedian David Brenner, explains: "There was no transition in Freddie's life. It was an explosion. It's tough to walk off a subway at age 19 and then step out of a Rolls-Royce the next day. He was in a life-style that's very unusual for a 22-year-old." Producer Komack, 20 years his elder, became a close confidant. Says he: "Freddie saw nothing around that would satisfy him. He would ask me, 'Is this what it is? Is this what...