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With his disheveled hair and dark-rimmed spectacles, Wojnilower looks more like a physicist than a financier. An intensely private person, he shuns speech-making and generally reserves his opinions for clients and superiors at First Boston. Says he: "I play something of a court jester role here. Anyone else who told the truth would lose his head for sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those Bad News Bears | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...unusually complex role among Gilbert and Sullivan leading tenors, Fairfax begins as a thoroughly sympathetic character. But by the end of the operetta, he becomes a callous rake, and his marriage to the strolling singer Elsie Maynard leaves two characters heart-broken: Phoebe and Jack Point, the jester who loves Elsie...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: A G & S Surprise | 12/11/1980 | See Source »

Davies, lead singer, composer and prime mover of the Kinks, has always been a jester who sings as if he enjoys a good joke, a long cry and a stiff drink, sometimes all at once. Early Davies songs such as A Well Respected Man and Dedicated Follower of Fashion were sardonic assaults on both sides of what was then called the generation gap and what now seems less like a chasm than a split but sewable seam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Wrinkles from the Kinks | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

Douglas A. Ames '80, a former treasurer of the humor magazine, believes the omission was a response to his recent threat to sue the Lampoon if it published the issue in its original form because it included a "Jester, Ibis, Blot" column on pages four and five that he said was "vindictive and malicious" toward...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Something's Missing | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

Ames noted that the masthead, which appeared on the same ripped out pages as the "Jester, Ibis, Blot" piece, was missing "for the first time in the Lampoon's history...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Something's Missing | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

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