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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...
...vigorous, thoroughly entertaining revival of Clare Boothe Luce's saucy 1936 saga of bare-knuckled Eves. Interestingly enough, the play is something of a rarity in terms of the U.S. theater's comic tradition in recent decades. We have grown accustomed to kooky comedy, sight-and-gag comedy, situation comedy and even black comedy. But Mrs. Luce writes social comedy...
...effect is right. Waiting for death, as the four characters in Endgame are, why not expire with a gag rather than a whimper? Gregory captures that aspect of Beckett that is too frequently scanted, his Gaelic gallows humor, his fascination with vaudeville turns, his boozy way with a monologue that is pure barroom oneupmanship...