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Janus has spent ten years and $20,000 of his own money traveling around the country to interview top comedians and give them psychological tests. So far, he has tested 76 Jewish humorists, including Milton Berle, George Burns, David Brenner, Sid Caesar, David Steinberg and Mort Sahl. Most, he says, were ambivalent about their Jewishness and compulsively turned to humor to ward off their private demons. As Joan Rivers told Janus, "If I were marching to the ovens, I'd be telling jokes all the way." What makes them funny, says Janus, "is their pain...
...GREEK TYCOON Directed by J. Lee Thompson Screenplay by Mort Fine...
...Cumnock Fields, Where Harvard youth and prolate spheroids meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet... Mort Sadow...
Although the pen of Mort Sadow may not be a match for the Bard himself, anyone who chats briefly with Mr. Sadow will concur that there are few who can rival his encyclopedial knowledge of Crimson football lore. Sadow is such a devote of Harvard tradition that he disdains wearing a Crimson sweater, opting for what he describes as a bluer hue of red or magenta. Magenta was originally selected as the team color for Harvard on January 24, 1873 before Crimson was later adopted. By the way, the word "glowing" in Sadow's poem should be printed in "purple...
...capital. Waving an elaborately carved cane, he pointed contemptuously at a pair of bedraggled, badly wounded prisoners-the first, apparently, to have been captured by government forces in nearly two months of fighting against invaders in Shaba province (TIME, April 25). Mobutu's gestures brought cries of "Mort, mort," (Death, death) from the crowd. Looking as hapless as Christians facing an arena of lions, the two men were paraded before foreign newsmen and testified through interpreters that Cuba and Angola were behind the invasion by Katangese rebels, as Mobutu has claimed all along...