Word: gag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Counsel Rufus Edmisten, who doubles as Ervin's right-hand man on the staff, spend little time on the Washington social scene but find wherever they go that people are full of questions-which they must nearly always refuse to answer. Ervin has imposed no hard and fast gag rule, but, says Edmisten, "he expects us to act with discretion...
Last Christmas, Rolling Stone sent him a gag gift-a mock-up of a cover photograph of Davis with the billing, "Should the recording industry name an Emperor?" An attorney with little experience in the music field ("I thought Simon & Garfunkel was a law firm," he once noted of his pre-Columbia days), Davis was head of Columbia's U.S. records division by 1967. Described by a former associate as "Mr. Super Straight" and "Mr. Dignity," he was nonetheless one of the few record executives to recognize the rock revolution in its early days. For his efforts, Davis last...
Died. Jack E. Leonard, 62, nightclub and TV comic who made the abrasive, one-line gag into an art form; of complications following heart surgery; in Manhattan. A onetime lifeguard, Leonard began competing in Charleston contests during the '20s, then graduated to the big-band circuit as a comedian. Portraying the angry, fast-talking fat man (his weight yo-yoed between 200 and 330 lbs.), he eventually became a frequent TV guest whose comedy format never varied-a skeleton routine augmented by ad-lib insults to audience and fellow performers alike. "I could be funny for hours on your...
...reported (TIME, March 5), the FBI had tapped telephones of reporters and White House aides at Attorney General John Mitchell's direction in seeking leaks of Government information to the press. Last week Nixon ordered his aides not to answer any questions about those taps. The grounds for the gag: national security...
...case of the Watergate investigation, however, Nixon seeks, through executive privilege, to protect himself and his administration rather than the nation at large. He could constitutionally bind and gag his present and former associates in cases of security, but he will find it difficult to silence his critics and impossible to silence the Senate investigating committee of Sam Ervin...