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Reporter-Researcher Eileen Shields, who worked on this week's cover story, points out that Church's puckish outlook extends to writing-and singing-gag lyrics about the journalist's lot. "His voice is perfectly suited to spoofing," says Shields. "He's a sort of Tom Lehrer, well blipped...
...statements that he may later regret -while remaining in view. Muskie must also steer clear of the Romney trap: disputes with the press over what he did or did not say. Otherwise reporters will be dusting off the old ROMNEY key on their typewriters-the one, the Washington gag has it, that prints at one stroke: "Governor Romney later explained that what he really meant was . . ." That could be the end of presidential hopes, and Muskie knows...
...flight to the suburbs (TIME, April 26). The lone remaining source of revenue that the city has yet to take advantage of is an authorized auto-use tax of $10 per car, which, if the city council approves, will net the city another $15 million. A bittersweet city hall gag goes: "We've taxed everything that moves and everything that stands still...
...into an institution to gain control of his fortune. Faced with "Holmes," the asylum assigns a real psychiatrist named Watson (Joanne Woodward). Even though the sex is wrong, the Baker Street Irregular decides that she is the Dr. Watson ("Elementary, my dear"), and the shrink goes along with the gag. Soon the two are tooling along in Manhattan in pursuit of a villain known inevitably as Moriarity...
...childish high jinks. Sheely and Sisto were first and second bananas. With unfettered glee, they short-sheeted beds, banged on walls, and placed a tape recording of reveille set to go off at 4 a.m. under a court deputy's bed (he slept through it). Their boffo running gag: a rubber chicken purchased as a complement to Sheely's chicken jokes. The chicken made regular appearances in beds and toilets around the jurors' hotel rooms at the Ambassador (cleverly dubbed the "Dambassador"). As a token of their esteem, the group at trial's end presented...