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COLD IRON by Robert Stone Pryor. 145 pages. McCall...
...black without being racial. Like Cosby, he tends to narrative rather than one-liners. His harridan housewife who swears to her hapless preacher husband, "The devil made me buy that dress!" may become one of the classic routines of American comedy. On a funkier level is Richard Pryor. Aside from his extensive repertory of anal and armpit gags, Pryor does such splendidly satirical routines as "It's a bat, it's a crow, it's a job for SUPER NIGGER!" A totally different sort of innovator is Irwin C. Watson, who takes a gently self-mocking, cerebral...
...purpose and origin of the poll are a total mystery. The return address on the questionnaire is a box in the Minneapolis main post office. There is no telephone listing there for anything called "National Campus Poll"; someone named E. W. Pryor, who signed the letter accompanying the questionnaire, is not listed there either...
Guests include Ella Fitzgerald, Caterina Valente, Ed Ames, Eddie Albert and Rich ard Pryor...
...into early retirement, provoking charges from many commuters that Aikman is being made a scapegoat for the mistakes of Dr. William J. Ronan, the M.T.A. chairman, who is staying on. Aikman was replaced by Walter L. Schlager Jr., an executive from the New York City subway system. Harold J. Pryor, the verbose head of four L.I.R.R. union locals, warned that he would give Schlager 15 days to improve labor-management relations. Was he making another of his many strike threats? Could be, said Pryor...