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...like them any more. It is not enough to say that magazines like Playboy, Dude, Gent, and Rogue have defeated Hollywood by double exposure, although today's military barracks and college rooms are all but innocent of actresses, being decorated instead with the slick-paper mermaids of whom Mort Sahl has observed that a whole generation of American boys is growing up with the expectation that their wives will have staples in their navels. But these lifeless gatefold odalisques could hardly compete with living dolls. Hollywood's sex stars were larger than life and, after all, creatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Sex Shortage | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

...image is so much more than an image that it is in many ways an example. He is never bitter, as Mort Sahl or even Jack Benny can be. His wisecracking toys with the limits of tact and taste but never crosses the line. He won't knock other stars, and he won't listen to gossip. He is loyal to old retainers, some of whom have been hanging around him since vaudeville days. He is a kind of universal uncle, likable and humane. Everywhere, that is, but on a golf course. There he is an amiable, hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Fish Don't Applaud | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

...JERRY LEWIS SHOW (ABC, 9:30-11:30 p.m.). Guests include Mort Sahl, Harry James and Kay Stevens. Premi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 20, 1963 | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

SUMMARY--Team competition, first round against Toronto (Harvard winning, 5-0); Bill Morris over John Ireton, 15-8, 15-9, 15-10; Lou Williams over Mort Willow, 15-12, 15-11, 4-15, 15-8; Paul Sullivan over Jim Coons, 13-15, 16-13, 10-15, 17-15, 15-3; Doug Walter over Gord Gryatt, 15-10, 15-8, 17-16; Terry Robinson over Erv Herman...

Author: By Richard B. Ruge, | Title: Niederhoffer, Squash Team Advance in U.S. Nationals | 2/23/1963 | See Source »

...desire to become the first woman to make love to an astronaut in space. The women fans wear Knockers Up buttons. They know her five LP albums by heart (more than 3,000,000 sold so far). They have made her a $5,000-a-week nightclub star, outdrawing Mort Sahl and Shelley Herman. After all, Rusty comes of a fine background. She is from Milton, Mass. She has a degree from the New England Conservatory of Music, and she once played the piano under the direction of Arthur Fiedler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: Barnyard Girl | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

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