Acts & Entertainments
August, 1976
During this Bicentennial year, Washington, D.C., is covered with a virtual pox of American flags, one of which hangs outside the Shoreham Americana Hotel, where the nation's funniest political satirist, Mark Russell, twice nightly dumps all over the electoral spectrum. The Shoreham, as the convention center of the city, has a built-in audience and some of those Shriners from Duluth and aunts and uncles from Toledo claim Russell's show defames the flag and what it flies for. Not so, says Russell:...
