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...Mort Sahl, 32, the original sicknik, now makes $300,000 a year, but still manages to see the worm in the golden apple. Right alongside Sahl in the hierarchy of disease is Jonathan Winters, 33, a roly-poly brainy-zany who has spent most of the past two months as a patient in his favorite subject for humor: the funny farm. While these two once seemed more or less alone in their strange specialty, it is now clear that the virus has spread. Perhaps a dozen other sickniks-some newcomers, some oldtimers with brand-new syndromes-are cleaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: The Sickniks | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...Mort Sahl: "Our outlook is similar because we have a similar approach to many things, and because some of the same things frighten...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Confessions of a Cockeyed Artist | 5/12/1959 | See Source »

Academy Awards (NBC, 10:30 p.m.-12:15 a.m.). Hollywood's annual Class Day with the platform bending under Emcees Bob Hope, David Niven, Jerry Lewis, Sir Laurence Olivier, Mort Sahl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Among the living bodies: Jeff Hunter, Myron McCormick, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Beth Hughes and Mort Sahl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Less than two blocks from Sahl's Broadway debut, England's Joyce Grenfell, a gaily chirping mockingbird, was back, after 2½ years, with her monologues and songs. After a travesty on Opening Numbers, she imitates a Stately Homeowner on TV, lady choristers at the Albert Hall, assorted cockneys and Yankees, a harebrained cultist and a cheery nursery-school teacher. Mimic Grenfell's satiric range is narrow, her lunges make mere surface wounds, and half a Grenfell loaf is better than all of one. But her art, if thin, is pure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Tiger & the Lady | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

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