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...Ape. Despite anatomical similarities, said Adler, men and apes differ "essentially in kind," not in degree. Only man "makes artistically," only men "machinofacture," only men "communicate ideas," and "only human society is constitutional or political." Men and apes, he argued, are as far apart "as a square and a triangle. There can be no intermediates-no 31-sided figure." And since there are no intermediate forms (no missing link), there can be no common ancestor...
...across the campus, soon moved out across the country. A Harvard professor called the lecture "the kind of statement Bryan used to make in the Bible belt." At Fordham, an anthropologist countered with the flat assertion that the "old story about man being nothing better than an educated ape is completely false...
Yesterday the zoo--which calls Makoko "the finest specimen in the world"--embalmed the ape and sent the body to the Medical School, the brain to Columbia...
...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...
...week, as Peggy faced the cameras in her first part in a new Katzman epic, Jungle Safari, her discoverer declared himself more than satisfied. "She has a wonderfully expressive face," he reported proudly. "She will be a big star." Her human fellow actors were already, complaining that the "damned ape" was stealing all the scenes...