On December 20, 1971, Larry King was arrested in Miami, Florida, and charged with grand larceny over his dealings with Louis Wolfson, a financier of questionable reputation. Although the details of the events are somewhat murky, apparently King was peddling …

In 1961 Bruce was arrested for obscenity at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco; he had used the words co—ucker and riffed that “‘to’ is a preposition, ‘come’ is a verb” and that the sexual climax of “come” is so …