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Many sketchers are freelance artists who work for between $100 and $500 a day. The pressure is severe, especially when they try to capture fast-moving uproar. Says Leo Hershfield: "I love the work, but if I had to do it all the time I'd get an ulcer...
Died. Edward ("Senator") Ford, 82, dour-visaged vaudeville comedian who wisecracked his way to fame on radio's Can You Top This show in the '40s; of cancer; in Greenport, N.Y. In 1940 Ford teamed with Comedians Harry Hershfield and Joe Laurie Jr. to challenge radio audiences to a game of comic oneupmanship; at its peak the show attracted 10,000 jokes a week from a regular audience of 10 million listeners. Typical Ford rib-tickler: "Professor to student: 'Give me a definition of syntax.' Student to professor: 'My God, have they...
...Matter of Heart. Starting his campaign for the September primary, Screvane moved into Manhattan's heavily Jewish garment district, accompanied by Humorist Harry Hershfield. O.K., cried Hershfield, so maybe Screvane is of Italian-Irish descent and married to Limerick-born Bridie McKessy-but "he has a Jewish heart." Although by no means assured of his own party's nomination, Screvane went on the offensive against Republican Nominee John Lindsay, attacking him as a "socialite, silk-stocking Congressman" and as "the boss-backed candidate of the Republicans, who masquerades as an independent...
Intrigued by the Israeli controversy over what is a Jew (TIME, July 28), wily, white-thatched Humorist Harry Hershfield, on a Jerusalem visit, supplied his own definition: "Someone with courage, faith, stamina and a sense of humor." His hoary example? "A philanthropist comes to the Negev and sees this poor rabbi in a shabby synagogue and asks him: 'Rabbi, how much do you make here?' The rabbi says: 'Five dollars a week.' 'But how can you live on that?' asks the philanthropist, and the rabbi answers: 'Lucky thing is that...
Poker and Solitude. He was rather a dandy, in a loud way. His favorite sport was poker. He could be a wonderfully entertaining host. William Randolph Hearst loved him. His own close friends were chiefly comic-strip artists - Hershfield, Ru dolph Dirks (The Captain and the Kids}, Jim Swinnerton (Little Jimmy), the late TAD Dorgan (Indoor Sports). His best friend was the late H. M. (Beanny) Walker, Our Gang comedies director...