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Show Sincerely, Growche When pub- lishers first approached Groucho WHAT Marx about a book to be called The Groucho Letters, he wired back: IN THE WORLD! Last Words Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco lives in constant dies unexpectedly, So, whenever he journeysto a distant part of Spain, a mailman is among his official party. The postman carries in his pouch 12 sealed letters to Spain's 12 highest officials. He has been ordered to de- liver them immediately if Franco ever falls ill or suffers an accident. Pre- those members of my profession. who continue to act in Shakespeare, but | have reached an‘age when | can no longer bear to watch them doing so.” Butrecently he had to do some backtracking. He went to watch his 20- ~ Indian in war bonnet By ALLEN GARVIN fear that anarchy will break outif he Morley Retreats Some time ago, outspoken actor Robert Morley sputtered: “I have the highest regard for dealer was recently forced to take out of his window a cartoon of an Indian advertising "heap big bar- gains," A distiller has stopped referring to bad whiskey as “Indian firewater."” Network‘officials are be- ing asked not to show Westerns in which all that the Indions say is “ugh.” Next Indian target: school textbooks that portray the red men as bloodthirsty savages. sumably the letters carry Franco's inSong Bill Three senators, Hiram Fong, Russell Long, and William Spong, have teamedup to sponsor a Groucho Marx "Your letter received and promptly burned. | prefer not to have strangers pawing into my mail." Eventually, however, he relented, and the new book is one of the season's funniest. Quotedin it is one of Groucho's best letters, a resignation from a Holly- wood club. It reads: “'! don't care to belong to any social organization that will accept me as a member.” Robert Morley year-old daughter Annabel play her first major stage role—Jaquenetto in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. bill intended to end the piracy of American songs by Hong Kong publishers, Senate wits call it "The FongLong-Spong Hong Kong SongBill." A Woman's Dilemma Top Broadway actress Rosemary Harris always looks pained when being interviewed; Most Famous Athlete The world's most famous athlete is not America’s Mickey Mantle or Bart Starr but Pele, the legendary Brazilian soccer player. Everything Pele touchesturns to gold. Poisonous Grass Former warhero, sportsman, and governor Joe Foss suddenly found that his weight had -dropped from 188 to 154 and that he Recently, to help raise money for a Brazilian hospital, he turned painter she suffers visibly. "I hate to be Generalissimo Franco structions concerning his successor. After each return from an uneventful journey, the letters are burned. quoted," she confesses. “I hate to give an gpinion on a subject and-then see it’in print a week or a month later. | am a typical woman.| change my mind frequently. What | may believe to be true today, in a matter of days or months, | may no longer be- lieve at all.” Socklessness The current teen-age fad is to go sockless. But health avthorities worn that it is dangerous. Joe Foss The innersurface of a shoe,less pliant _ than a sock,causesblisters and corns; athlete's foot germsthrivein blisters. Leather. mayalso nurture spores, and bare skin against leather may breed had trouble walking. At the Mayo Clinic, doctors diagnosed hisillness as arsenic poisoning. Foss had been chewing on blades of grass plucked from the ground while taping a tv fungal infections. In addition, bare feet in shoes increase foot odor. Socks, anyone? nee Pele (lett) in action ; On the Warpath America’s Indians are on the warpath against de- and dashed off an oil in an hour and a half,_It brought: the top price of $1,000 at a charity auction. rogatory references to them. A car Sr es abate trie tat, aloe with an unusual job. He serves with the: fide fost thot 1 patrols + South Vietnam’s rivers and coast ie oy _, Hine. Photo'by Robert J. Ellison, You are invited to mail series, Chemicals on the foliage Poisoned him. “I'll never again chew a blade of grass or eat an apple right off a tree or a tomato from a vine," Foss swears. "Whatever fruit, vegetable; or plant that goes into my mouth will be scrubbed." Family Weekly the newspaper Magazine ssouaRD §. DAVIDOW President merseattice | MORTONPLANE Publshr oefealty, Wey, ee 2 omptanswer. Write to gepo le Ms Yor AY 1022 LUTHER V, HAGGERTY Eestorn Advertising Manager RUSSELL L, SPARKS Western Advertising Manager aitortal office: 405 Park Ave, New York 10022. AN Midionnracereee Detroit W910 Rand Tower, MinneSE etn BeAnes April 16, 1967 ROBERT FITZGIBBON Raitor-in-Chief ARDEN EIDELL Menaping ator JACK RYAN Senior Editor MELANIE DE PROF! Food Editor Eiitore: Rnatyn Abroveys, Poot Conecnslae ey © 1947, SAMILY weEKLY, INC. |