Radio: You Bet Your Shakespeare

Quizmaster Groucho Marx can usually talk his way out of any difficulty on NBC's You Bet Your Life. But two contestants recently trying for a $1,000 jackpot stumped him.

Groucho's jackpot question: "In Shakespeare's Henry IV, Henry V and Merry Wives of Windsor, there appears a cowardly braggart whose good humor and wit have endeared him to millions the world over . . . I want you to identify this genial fellow." Contestants Muriel Stetson of Rivera, Calif, and Arthur LaVove of Los Angeles, teamed together, thought a moment, then answered "Pistol." Wrong, said...

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