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...Concorde. But in the warm spring air the paraders sauntered listlessly, shouting their war cries with only perfunctory venom. A few demonstrators shouted: "A has la politique du dollar!" (Down with dollar diplomacy!)* in front of a Marxist movie from the U.S.-A Night in Casablanca, starring Groucho, Chico and Harpo. A woman stood weeping as she watched the Red Flags flutter close to France's own tricolore. "In the days of the occupation," she said, "Nazi flags, too, were sandwiched between French tricolores. They were tricolores without meaning. Now it is the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: May Day | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Bing Crosby Show (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). Guests: Groucho Marx, Hank Greenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Interviewers who tried to pin down Sheldon Sackett found him as jumpy as a flea circus, and as vague as a summer breeze. He likes crimson shirts and flossy hotel suites, which he roams with Groucho Marxian energy, gulping strategically placed drinks of Scotch, nibbling toast, bawling into telephones, thrusting laploads of handouts on his visitors. The handouts range from his financial statements (sound enough) to his theories about what ails the U.S. press (mostly sound effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Suns & a Star | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...French as Petites Femmes, would have a meaning which would have distressed Louisa May, of Concord, Mass. The Frenchman of the street confused the name 'March' (the family name of Miss Alcott's Little Women) with Marx, made famous in France as elsewhere by the inimitable Groucho, Harpo and Chico. So Little Women was named The Marx Sisters, and was believed by many purchasers, who were later disappointed, to have the zany qualities which have become synonymous with America's distinguished comedians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Hefty Louis Cortese, 31, had worked for Hearst and for Stage magazine. Dark-haired Jack Begon, 35, had run a shortlived Cosmopolis (Wash.) weekly, had done make-up on the San Francisco Chronicle. Lean, Groucho-mustached Bill de Meza, 28, had reported for the Plainfield (NJ.) Courier News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tabloid in Exile | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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