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...Malacca jungle last week, Acting Police Corporal Roslan Bin Haji Mohammed waited three nights for his quarry. Someone had "whispered," i.e., informed, against noisy, hunchbacked Cheung Kit Ming, better known as "the Ape of Malacca." A top Communist guerrilla, a veteran killer and terrorist, Cheung had a $25,000 price on his head. On the third night of the ambush, the Ape appeared and the police corporal shot him dead...
...Gros Clark of Oxford adds new details to his theory that fossil primates (Proconsuls) found in Kenya show more manlike than apelike characteristics. They have no "simian shelf" (bony reinforcing) in the lower jaws, and their limbs suggest that they did not swing through the trees. Such ape traits were probably developed by specialization later than Proconsul's time...
Since the several species of Proconsul lived in the Lower Miocene period (25 million years ago, halfway back to the dinosaurs), it looks as if man has had no near ape-cousins to worry about for at least that long...
...must be trifling compared to its appeal in West Africa Hardly a week has gone by, since the film was first distributed in this area, that in some town it hasn't delighted huge audiences of fascinated natives who go again & again to see the great ape which they think is enormously funny ... In the Gold Coast, one movie owner possesses only two features, King Kong and The Mark of Zorro . . . On Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays he has packed them in for years with the former; on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays with the latter. On Sunday there is always...
John P. Marquant, in a review of the Lampoon, concluded that the Bow Street dunces were trying unsuccessfully to ape Life and Punch. The former 'Poonster advised the boys to stick to the Lampoon...