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 | | Clearly Minnie and Sam moved their marriage back a little, to accommodate Pauline's birth in January 1885, as they were passing her off as their own; a necessary protection, if Pauline was illegitimate, in an age when that stigma could destroy lives. |
 | | In the Marx family, boys were boys, and girls were in the story as matriarch, loyal wife, girlfriend, or comic relief. |
 | | As this Sam Marx was born in 1902, the possibility that he was the missing ghost brother is delicious but, alas, unsupported by the facts, which record his father as a Broadway theatrical tailor, Max Marx. |
| partners.nytimes.com /books/first/l/louvish-monkey.html (3190 words) |
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