Word: apes
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HACKENFELLER'S APE (177 pp.)-Brophy - Random House...
...love with her yet left her unfulfilled. For weeks poor Edwina tried every device in her varied repertoire, but she could not heat the simmering Percy to an honest boil. Edwina iked. Percy brooded. It was an intolerable situation for an Anthropopithecus Hirsutus Africanus, or, in plain English an ape...
Percy, a Hackenfeller's Ape,* is the subject of British Author Brigid Brophy's first novel, but the theme of her crisp witty satire is Man-his birth in pain his absurdity in marriage, his glory in freedom. Her ape is no ordinary one; its kind is the closest thing to Homo sapiens that the animal kingdom has produced. For that reason, Percy and Edwina are the center of impassioned scientific interest...
Born at Clemansville, Wis., in 1887, Hooton graduated from Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis., in 1907. Among his many publications were "Up From the Ape," "Apes, Men and Morons," "Twilight of Man," and "Young Man, You're Normal." His last book, "Physical Anthropology of the Irish," is now in the process of publication...
...Penicillin. 60. Skull and jawbones which had long been attributed to a very ancient man turned out to belong to a relatively modern ape and a relatively modern man. Exposed as a hoax was the: 1. Neanderthal...