Word: aping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both were at a meeting of anthropology scholars in New York a week ago Saturday when Johannes Hurzeler, a Swiss paleontologist, lectured on his thesis that Oreopithecus, a creature whose fossilized jaw-bone was found in 1872, was more human-like than ape-like...
...worthwhile ape lover knows that when a genuine, Swahili-captured, African gorilla becomes emotionally disturbed, a more basic cause then the absence of human "tender, loving care" must be present. Jambo, it must be relized, is not only a male, but he is masculine. He is also four years old--an important stage in the life of a gorilla...
...ape pack now numbers 40, but one among them, an amiable grey-coated fellow named Winston, was easily the most popular ape on the Rock. In 1954, when Britain's Queen visited her Mediterranean stronghold, proud Winston was granted an official audience with Prince Charles and Princess Anne...
Winston, mannerly and conscientious, was never late to meals. So when he failed to answer mess call one day last month, a search party was organized to comb the rugged heights of the Rock. They searched every crevice and called the ape loudly by name. No answer. Last week Gibraltar officialdom issued a sad bulletin: "Rock ape Winston has been missing since ninth December and must now be presumed dead. He is, accordingly, struck off the strength of the fortress from that date...
...Ape & Lady Bracknell. The movies caught her imagination early. What she saw on the screen she became in real life -at least for the rest of the day. After the weekly Weissmuller, she and her two brothers played Tarzan in the sumac ("I was an ape"). As the movie-madness grew, she became Vivien Leigh, Ginger Rogers, Olivia de Havilland. She filled dozens of scrapbooks with pictures of her favorites. The high point of her girlhood came when a schoolboy said she reminded him of Bette Davis. Gone With the Wind she saw 13 times, and in one month...