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...pressure on white performers to write had two large negative effects. Firstly, competent musicians with no talent as songwriters deluged us with atrocious songs. Secondly, independent songwriters, who lost the bulk of their market in the change, either faded into obscurity (like Doc Pomus and Mort Schuman) or were forced to become performers themselves. Some, like Carole King, made the transition gracefully, whereas others, like Leonard Cohen, produced disastrous results...
...reason for the great turnabout is a dawning realization that women who have money to spend want clothes that are comfortable and smart. Says Stan Herman, designer for Mr. Mort: "Business was so rotten last year that we began to look around for the answer -and the answer was to give the lady out in Middle America what she wants. It's a salable look." Manhattan Designer Bill Blass is even more emphatic. "I have just returned from Minneapolis," he reports, "a city I consider a good barometer of the mood of the country, and I found women hungry...
Honeymooning with Bride China Lee, 28, a onetime Bunny trainer, Stand-Up Satirist Mort Sahl, 43, invited the press to his Playboy Club Apartments penthouse in London and let fly. Mort's missiles zapped, among others: President Nixon ("If you were drowning 20 feet offshore, he'd throw you an eleven-foot rope and point out he was meeting you more than halfway"); Movie Stars Dustin Hoffman, Elliott Gould and Richard Benjamin ("If any of those guys had been my roommate in college I couldn't have gotten him a date"); his host, Playboy Hugh Hefner...
...Married. Mort Sahl, 43, nightclub and TV comic, master of the political potshot; and China Lee, 28, Playboy playmate (August 1964) and Sahl's longtime girl friend; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beverly Hills...
...trouble began when Cartoonist Mort Walker decided his 20-year-old strip needed to catch up with the times. A black character was the obvious answer. Says Walker: "I wanted a strong character who is proud of being black, but I knew it had to be a funny character to go along with the rest of the strip." Walker named him Lieut. Flap and gave him an Afro hairstyle, a goatee and a brain power that seems a bare millivolt greater than the low-powered intellects around him. His rank requires white subordinates to call...