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...Love and War he picked up a field telephone up front in battle, said: "Good morning. This is World War II.'' As for television: "I think their spoon-feeding of the American public has resulted in a corruption and an ignorance that may sink this country," says Sahl solemnly. He wants, however, to destroy all the admen and network executives who have kept him at harm's length and most of the time...
With the proceeds of his fame-some $700,000 in all-Sahl supports his now-retired parents, pays $900 a month alimony to Sue, who divorced him in 1957 and now dates his best friend, Jazz Saxophonist Paul Desmond. Once short on toys, he can no longer make the claim, has filled his rented home in West Hollywood's hills with 14 radios, four TV sets and two hi-fi sets that blare until 4 a.m., wearing out his Stan Kenton and Dave Brubeck records. The unshaven campus rat looking for work has become a hard-working future millionaire...
...Sahl still spends much of his life in motor cars (he owns three); once a friend borrowed his Lincoln and found in it a huge pile of magazines, dirty laundry and $5,000 in cash. He dates beautiful women sporadically (Actresses Nancy Olsen, Haya Hayareet), has almost outgrown the starlet stage and has outlived a two-year romance with Actress Phyllis Kirk. Sometimes he prefers the company of carhops and waitresses ("Yes, I've worked that beat, too"). With an independent grin, he says: "I feel if you have enough of these healthy interests-watches, razors, automobiles-you will...
...Comedians. The biggest symbol of Mort Sahl's success, bigger than the salary, the cars, the watches, is the fact that he is the patriarch of a new school of comedians that has grown up with him. Their material is less political, but, like Sahl, they all stay close to an essentially offbeat and imaginative style...
...rather than the newspaper. Now a father talking to his daughter before her first date, he tells her that a car is a motel room on wheels; now Dr. Sprocket, child psychologist, he tells a patient's mother: "I know your little boy. His name is Oedipus." (While Sahl's four published recordings have sold only 125,000 copies, the closer-to-the-fingertips comedy of Shelley Berman has sold nearly 1,000,000 copies in three releases, a surprising figure for a "talking" record...