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...championed the comedian in his last year, claimed that Lenny "died from an overdose of police." Think that's an exaggeration? Well, Martin Garbus, one of Lenny's many lawyers, quotes a prosecutor in the the Manhattan D.A.'s office as saying, "I feel terrible about Bruce. We drove him into poverty and bankruptcy and then murdered him.... We all knew what we were doing. We used the law to kill...
...young to see Lenny at a night club, but my older brother Paul and his bride-to-be Pat Thompson drove across the Delaware to Pennsauken, N.J., where Lenny was playing at the Red Hill Inn. (Consulting The Complete Lenny Bruce, Daniel V. Smith's devotional and very valuable website, I'd judge that this was either April or November 1960.) After the set, Lenny came over to the bar, where my brother was. When Paul said he had a kid brother who was a big fan. Lenny picked up a paper coaster and wrote on it: "To Richard ? Your...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—During the four weeks I was home in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I laid out on the hammock, drove into town to shop, and met up with my friends...
...possession of convincing state identification, we willingly slice hours off of our afternoons and graft them, later and later, onto our nights. With several driver’s licenses among us—a rarity among native New Yorkers, I assure you—three of us even drove up to Massachusetts this past weekend rather than stick around to hoop it up at home...
...dorm room on June 5 by breaking the door down. When the ex-girlfriend returned to her room, they began to fight, and witnesses found Thomas “strangling her with one hand.” He then “suddenly lifted her and drove his knee into her chest,” according to the report, and the ex-girlfriend was later taken to Mt. Auburn Hospital to be examined. —EVAN H. JACOBS