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...intends no social criticism (like Sahl), finds no side to comedy but the comic. He has never (like Bruce) depended on Negro or Jewish dialect for laughs, knowing that the vulnerable do not enjoy being kidded. His comedy is eager and innocent; he plays to the child in Everyman, allowing no room in his spectrum for the off-color, no time in his world for anything but the basic games of laughter, song and pantomime. While others find subject for sport in drugs, dames, madmen and sit-ins, Danny Kaye looks around, beyond and behind him toward a world where...
...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...
McPhee, who lives in Princeton with his wife Pryde and three daughters, is the author of TIME covers on Sophia Loren, Jackie Gleason, Jean Kerr, Lerner and Loewe, and Mort Sahl. He wound up liking all his subjects, even if his style has acid as well as adulation in it. He certainly likes his beat: "I have so much fun I sometimes feel guilty...
...MORT SAHL: Teddy Kennedy says, "These are times that will test all the people. Are we up to the test?" And the people say, "The question is, can we get someone to take the test...
...MORT SAHL: Governor Brown is trying to kill Nixon with a blunt instrument...