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Cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, of the Richmond News Leader, understood right off, and when he drew the White House he sometimes included a hound dog, a beat-up pickup, a gas pump and Billy-just to make the Carters feel at home. Humorist Art Buchwald eased the presidential family into national life by telling his audiences that to understand them one should consider the Carter Administration as just another Hollywood television serial where an average former submarine officer and peanut farmer becomes President. He has a mother who runs off to India at age 68, a daughter who lives...
Thanks to many mao-tais, nobody lost face. The humorist had flown to Peking after driving from Paris to Hong Kong in his 1949 vintage MG. On arrival, a bout with bronchitis landed the peripatetic Perelman in a Peking hospital. When he saw the bill for his seven-day stay-$100-he treated his Chinese doctor to a pearl of wisdom: "Raise the rate...
...time Son Ralph became a published humorist (My Years in the White House Doghouse; Yes, My Darling Daughters), the Journal- American had wrapped its last fish. The son had become more prominent than his father, and the hail-'ellows in Toots Shor's who used to fawn on Paul could hardly remember his name, much less his deeds. But Ralph never for got. Editor Schoenstein died in 1974; it was probably his only instance of faulty timing. For Writer Schoenstein has produced a filial, funny book that Superman would have loved - and that anyone might admire...
...Lenny was more of a crusader, I'm in a safer era for what I'm doing as well. Lenny was making a point for its own sake, and his humor was the vehicle for that. I am a humorist, and this exploration of words is my vehicle for arriving at my irony...
Recently Saturday Review flaunted a complaint titled "Jogging Mania-Enough Already!" Art Buchwald proposed a mileage tax on runners, and New York Daily News Humorist Gerald Nachman whimsically reviewed The Complete Book of Lollygagging-a title not precisely the same as that of Jim Fixx's bestselling rhapsody on running. Russell Baker, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor-all have joined in a spirited backlashathon...