1. Her Harpo Production spawned the careers of Dr. Phi, Ray Rachael and Dr. Oz.

2. Plenty of noteworthy folks sat in on the action -- including director George S. Kauffman, humorist Robert Benchley, and actors Harpo Marx and Talulah Bankhead.

3. Alexander Woollcott and Harpo Marx both came of age in the pre-­war New York that Chauncey describes, and, if their relationship was not a consummated homosexual pairing, it seems nonetheless to have partaken of the dynamics of fairy and trade—Uncle Acky, uptown, effeminate, neurotic, and verbal, and Little Harpo, downtown, masculine, cocky

4. Time is running out for Oprah's die-hard fans, and they were feeling the heat Tuesday as they waited in line outside Harpo Studios in the hopes of getting into one of the final shows.