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2 Groucho Marx
"Tank Town, Ptomaine and Tomfoolery. "
"Out of Our Little Minds and Into the Big Time."
"Rich Is Better. "
"Foot-in-Mouth Disease."
"What Price Pumpernickel?"
"You Bet % Life. "
Groucho, whose real name is Julius, discloses in the book that he was named after an uncle because "my mother somehow got the notion that Uncle Julius was wealthy...
"At the moment I was being born. Uncle Julius was in the backroom of a cigar store on Third Avenue (New York) dealing them off the bottom. When word reached him that he had been made a godfather, he dropped everything, including two aces he had up his sleeve and quickly rushed over to our flat.
"in a speech so moist with emotion that he was blinded by his own eyeglasses, he said he was overwhelmed by this sentimental gesture on our part and hinted that my future - a rosy one - was irrevocably linked with his. At the conclusion of his speech, still unable to see through his misty lenses, he kissed my father, handed my mother a cigar and ran back to the pinochle game."
Anecdotes such as this, interspersed with Groucho' s telling comments on the times and events through which he has lived, make up this chronicle he has called "Groucho and Me."
Groucho ' s proceeds from the sale of the book, he has an¬ nounced, will be divided between two Los Angeles hospitals, Mt. Sinai and Cedars of Lebanon.
"Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life" starts the 1959-60 season on the NBC-TV Network Thursday, Sept. 24 (10 p.m. EDT) and on the NBC Radio Network Monday, Sept. 28 (8:05 p.m. EDT).
NBC-New York, 9/15/59