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Three cheers for the new department. Personality story on Groucho Marx [Dec. 31] is indeed a nifty job. Lead-off feature is a home run; it helps make a great magazine even greater...
...Groucho Marx, but it is a sad substitute for TIME'S past detailed studies of important persons...
...GROUCHO MARX...
THOSE WHO know Groucho best insist that beneath his brash exterior lies a shy, thoughtful and kindhearted...
...doesn't mean to be insulting," Songwriter Harry Ruby says. "It's an involuntary motion with him, like a compulsion neurosis." When Groucho won the Peabody Award for being Radio's Best Comedian of the Year, it turned out that he had never heard of the awards or of the late George Foster Peabody, in whose honor the award was named. "It's a good thing the guy died," Groucho ad-libbed: "otherwise we couldn't have won any prizes." From Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Fred Allen or Ed Wynn, such a crack might have seemed outrageous. From Groucho...