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Died. Margaret Dumont, 75, stately foil for Marx Brothers shenanigans in the 1930s and early '40s, who in seven films (Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races) played the society dowager to Groucho's knave with hardly a quiver of her lorgnette, while he pranced, pinched and leered; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Guests celebrating this show's first anniversary include Debbie Reynolds, Gene Barry, Tony Martin, Cyd Charisse, Bette Davis, Groucho Marx, Ballet Star Jacques d'Amboise...
...President arrived at ten in the afternoon. At the airport to greet him were his able Vice President (who combines the baleful glare of Sonny Listen with a Groucho Marx mustache) and the fat, 5-ft.-tall head of the Youth League (who wears mammoth gold stars and carries his money in bulging sacks). During his stay the President was entertained by native dancers who balanced pickaxes, shovels and barrels of mortar on their heads. He supped on cherry pop and sponge cake while solemnly touring a gallery hung with photographs of Mao Tse-tung, Lenin and Lyndon Johnson...
...After reading how so many consider Jack O'Brian an Ogre, 1st Class, I feel mighty lucky. After seeing me on a Groucho Marx show, he described me as "a nice colonel," but didn't mention my name. I gather he is seldom generous with either flattery or anonymity, but he was in my case...
...58th Street in 1927, the $18 million Savoy Plaza became one of the world's most luxurious hotels. A favorite of aristocrats, diplomats and cinema stars, it has been host to the likes of the King of Nepal, Adlai Stevenson, William Scranton, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands and Groucho Marx. The Savoy also captured the fancy of a darkly handsome British real estate tycoon named Max Rayne. Two years ago he bought one-third of the hotel from William Zeckendorf, later bought the whole thing when Zeckendorf became even harder pressed for cash. Last week representatives of Rayne...