Word: aping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnny Weissmuller, continuing his one-man, one-lifetime, evolutionary ascent from the cinema's ape-man to man (TIME, March 6). gave up his crowning Tarzan glory...
...DELICATE APE- Dorothy B. Hughes -Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($2.50). Piers Hunt, field assistant to the murdered Secretary of Peace in a postwar Cabinet, dodges death just long enough to thwart the schemes of the "delicate apes" of diplomacy to bring on another world war. Imaginative, melodramatic, continuously suspenseful. An unusually effective tour de force...
Anxious to preserve the ape colony, the British recently brought in two males from Tetuan. They were called Monty and Ike (for obvious generals). Inexplicably, Ike died. For Monty, a female was flown from Algiers in a bomber. Her crate was labeled "On His Majesty's Service...
...interested in early man, about whom he has written six books and close to 400 articles. The bones he found at the Kromdraai farm he attributes to higher primates which lived some 500,000 years ago. He sees in them "interesting affinities to man." Broom thinks the Kromdraai ape man may be a survivor of forms out of which man sprang a million years ago. The new anklebone, small compared with the skull, leads Broom to believe that Kromdraai's large brain would not have been required for his "muscular economy" and "was partly used for thinking...
Conquest of Britain. He went to London, conquered it, then conquered half the cities of Europe. Back in England, he played in Show Boat, The Hairy Ape, Othello. The first night of the London Othello drew 20 curtain calls but, says Robeson, "it wasn't a success to me because I hadn't worked...