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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 22 Mar 1995.
Re: Searching for Marx Brothers

Re: Searching for Marx Brothers

In <3kolv3$fk...@southern.co.nz> Col...@equinox.gen.nz (Colin 
Douthwaite) writes [to say nothing of depicts]:

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>" I resign. I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me 
>  as a member " 
>
>                       - Groucho Marx ( Attributed )
>
If I'm not mistaken, he was speaking, if in fact he spoke, of the 
Hillcrest Country Club, the top Jewish country club in LA/Hollywood.

In which connection, Danny Thomas appeared on the Johnny Carson show at 
the time with the integration movement was big in the news. He belonged 
to a restricted Christian country club, but most of his best golfing 
buddies belonged to the restricted Jewish country club, Hillcrest, and 
he played twice as much golf at Hillcrest, as a guest, as he did at his 
own club. He spent more time there than many of their members. And not 
only for golf. The food was great.

When the Hillcrest Board of Governors decided they ought to do the right 
thing by admitting non-Jews, of course Thomas immediately asked about 
getting in. Regularizing, you might say, his de facto membership.

After deliberating at their next meeting, the Board turned him down. 
Thomas said they told him they didn't want for their first non-Jewish 
member someone who LOOKED so Jewish.

True story.

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From: Gus...@ix.netcom.com (August Nelson)
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