COMEDIANS: Will Rogers with Fangs

Of all the seasoned infighters who appeared in Los Angeles last week, probably none was more combative than the man in the cashmere sweater who said: "I like fun, but we don't have time for jokes. We have to overthrow our Government."

This was Morton Lyon Sahl. delegate from everywhere and nowhere, just about the only un-TelePrompTed speaker in town, and a sideshow considerably brighter than the main attraction. Busy as a Kennedy, he appeared nightly on local television over station KHJ (the call letters, he said, stand for "Kennedy Hates Johnson"), nibbled...

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