“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.”

—  Groucho Marx

To S J Perelman about his book Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge (1929), as quoted in LIFE (9 February 1962)

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