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...best known as a disc jockey in Los Angeles. There he built up a faithful following for his midnight radio show and, by popular demand, dispensed more chatter than records. His fans included workers in Hollywood's film industry, and, because of comments from them (Groucho Marx: "the freshest and most promising thing I've seen in radio in a long time"), CBS began to take notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Leisurely Style | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

Alberto Giacometti looks like a tormented Chico Marx; he also sculps and paints with the bug-eyed fury of a Harpo, and creates things undreamed of even in Groucho's philosophy. His subject matter is the human frame; his approach to it destructive. Giacometti hacks, picks and pocks his plaster sculptures until they stand thin as reeds, then he generally smashes them. He saved just enough to make an exhibition in a Paris gallery last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bust to Dust | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...remember them one by one as the evening goes by. But he is studying again. We close our lips. It is time for Groucho. But the radio and the wife are silent. He is deep in Currents of American Thought. We bear the stillness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nieman Wife Reveals Secrets--- Decries Insidious Harvard Effects | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

...Groucho Marx, named top TV man of the year, went an Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' gold-plated "Emmy," the equivalent of a movie Oscar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: After Due Consideration | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...Last week LeBlanc and his whirlwind medicine show blew into Hollywood to launch Hadacol there. Opening a 30-day ballyhoo campaign (which included a star-studded $75,000 radio show, featuring Groucho Marx and Judy Garland), the senator announced that he had already taken $1.5 million worth of orders for Hadacol in the movie capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Mixture As Before | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

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