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...weekly radio show dedicated to "looking out for the fans." The proprietors-Mark Witkin, Jim McCarthy and Eddie Andelman-are an unholy trio of amateur broadcasters and professional fans. Every Sunday night from 7 to 11, they rail against everything from overpriced tickets and cold hot dogs to sportswriters ("Sock sniffers in the locker room") and the sports establishment ("They've been abusing the public for years"). Their format is like the New England Patriots' offense: haphazard. Their delivery sounds like three guys gassing in a ginmill-that is. loose and loudmouth...
Along the way, he married British Pixy Judy Carne, who later became Laugh-In's "Sock It to Me" girl. She apparently got a lot of preparation for taking lumps before she and Burt split in 1965: "It was a wild trip, our marriage. The hostility got so out of hand that one day I bought him a punching...
...opened a new office building in the Wall Street area. From a distance it looks like the other towers all around it-humdrum-but it has its surprises. On the roof stands a replica of a World War I Sopwith Camel, complete with an AstroTurf runway and a wind sock. Says Kaufman: "It's something for the workers in surrounding towers to look...
...drawling Gordon Wade, onetime director of communications for the Republican National Committee. Under the sponsorship of Kaiser Broadcasting, the pair have now held six bipartisan sessions in major cities, giving advice that ranges from the fundamental ("Money is the mothers' milk of politics") to the peripheral ("Get long socks. Nobody likes to see a patch of bare leg over a droopy sock"). Unusual as it seems, the idea is working. Said one Detroit pol: "I've learned more here than I've learned in twelve years in politics...
...think the real problem is this: if a pitch is made in a political campaign to sock it to the economic royalists, that helps undermine the cooperative basis of society. In this sense the redistribution pitch is counterproductive. In terms of our whole social atmosphere, the last thing this country needs is a class war being waged from the campaign podiums this fall. But it looks very likely that this is going to happen...