Word: apes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the big test. Chief items: to retrieve bananas from chandeliers, walk through a maze of ash trays, drinking glasses, tables and boxes, hop into a pool (most chimps dread water), kiss several actors and actresses (Jungle Jim scripts call for frequent bussing of Weissmuller). The winner was an ape without any theatrical experience-a female chimp named Peggy who had led a quiet life in the San Fernando Valley as the family pet of a wealthy rancher...
...sending the Republicans' top man "Ike" to Europe, and with Bushman the educated ape dead, Mr. Truman should have clear sailing for another four years in office. However, in four or five years the Democrats should have Mickey Cohen ready to replace Truman...
...zoologists' intention is, of course, beyond reproach. To trace man's ancestry to the ape and the chimpanzee is a noble purpose. And this purpose they have made explicit wherever possible; they have placed a mother monkey, for instance, with her stuffed infant over her knee...
...Eric Newton: "These American pictures catch the eye in a flash, but they are empty." Said the Sunday Observer: "This term 'symbolic realism' is found to embrace the phosphorescent skeleton paintings of Pavel Tchelitchew; a horrific problem picture by Alton Pickens, of the crowning of a dyed ape . . . and Henry Koerner's surrealist picture [TIME, March 27] of a barber playing the violin to his shrouded customers and a monkey-an entertainment which no doubt explains the increased cost of hairdressing in American establishments. Most of these paintings have been worked over again and again with fine...
Last night marked the end of what Borden F. Beek, Secretary of the Union, termed "the most colorful Jubilee campaign in the history of the Union." Over 300 Yardlings turned out to hear a balled singer and guitarist, to ogle at an ape eating in the dining room, and to enter raffles for a corsage and candy...