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...Groucho Marx Show...
...Tobey: "Groucho...
...unnecessary and absurd"), Comic Garry Moore ("Responsible people shouldn't give way to the small segment of the public who are all too anxious to hunt for things to condemn"), and Veteran Fred Allen, who snapped: "This thing is ridiculous. There are only two good wits on television, Groucho Marx and George S. Kaufman. With Kaufman gone, TV is half-witted." Finally, CBS found a substitute in Steve (Songs for Sale) Allen...
...sensing some promotion material, Groucho decided to ask five Shakespearean authorities for their opinions, wrote letters to Actors Laurence Olivier, Walter Hampden, Charles Laughton and Critics Brooks Atkinson and Richard Watts. Their replies...
Having lost by a 3-2 vote, Groucho and sponsors decided to award the couple the full $1,000, have already found a Shakespearean quotation for the occasion: "I am a man whom fortune hath cruelly scratched...