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...performances in Broadway's Peter Pan, Boris Karloff launched his Boris Karloff's Treasure Chest (over Manhattan's WNEW). Far from the creep-voiced menace of his early movie days, Karloff dished up nonsense (Lewis Carroll's double-talking Jabberwock), limericks, and songs (recorded by Groucho Marx and Burl Ives), gave a fatherly lesson in tolerance (the story of a Churkandoose, which was neither chicken, turkey, duck or goose: "I'm sure . . . you'll respect his right to be different"). It looked as though onetime Frankenstein Monster Karloff, who reported a "tremendous reaction from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Heroes & Treasure Chests | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

Ruth Marx wanted $15,000 from ex-husband Groucho because, she told the court, the man with the grease mustache had tricked her into signing an agreement terminating her alimony in case he should divorce second wife Kay, which he did last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearth & Home | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

Parade of Stars (Mon. 7:45 p.m., CBS-TV). Guest: Groucho Marx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...rival NBC, captured such longtime NBC stars as Jack Benny, Amos 'n' Andy, Red Skelton, Edgar Bergen. Last week monolithic NBC finally struck back: it proudly announced the signing of an eight-year radio & TV contract (at an estimated $3,000,000) with Peabody Award-winning Comic Groucho Marx, one of CBS' top-rated shows. Cracked Groucho: "It was a tough fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Counter-Offensive | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...Angeles, Comedian Groucho Marx, 59, and wife Kay Dittig Marx, 29, were divorced. He agreed to pay her $134,215 in alimony over the next 10½ years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 22, 1950 | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

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