Marx to Lash Out
Against Sex Emphasis
Groucho Marx will lash out against “overemphasis on sex” in his speech here Dec. 2, New York columnist Earl Wilson says.
“I hate to be a bluenose,” Marx was quoted as saying by Wilson in Wilson’s New York Post column of a few weeks ago, “but I don’t think kids should have sex thrown at them 24 hours a day.”
“‘Almost every ad you see today, selling anything at all, has a picture of some dame in her underwear,’” Wilson quotes Groucho as saying.
Said Wilson:
“Groucho Marx — he of the slight leer and the lifted eyebrow — is helping me crusade against letting this decade become known as “the Feelthy Fifties.” …
“‘Never has any country since Rome been as sex-conscious as we are today,’ Groucho told me at lunch in Lindy’s.” …
“‘I’m going to criticize the overemphasis on sex in a humorous manner,’ Groucho said.”
“He proved it when I asked him the title of his speech.
“‘I thought “Charlie” would be a good title. Or maybe “Hank,” he answered.’”
Girdle Loses In End Stretch At Auction
A car bird horn and two candleholders were eagerly bid for yesterday afternoon at the Associated Women Students auction, but students felt little need for a girdle, a bag of soap bars or an encyclopedia set. …
A girdle took low money honors at ten cents and went to an unidentified male.
Receipts from the auction, held in the SU Fishbowl totaled $100.00, according to Kay Moore, AWS treasurer.
Rummage collected in Eugene and left over from the AWS auction will be sold today at the Rummage Center, in Eugene, according to Ancy Davis, chairman for the sale.
All proceeds from the auction and rummage sale will go into the AWS scholarship and charity funds.
