Word: chimp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...photographed in front of national monuments. He was refused a seat on an Italian train, although the Italian airline was delighted to have him. At the Rome Zoo, troubles mounted: Egypt's exiled King Farouk would not pose with Muggs. and a rogue elephant ate the chimp's shoes. In Cairo Muggs scratched the nose of a somnolent camel, while in Tokyo 70 reporters and photographers met him at the airport and 15 geishas fanned him while he napped. The Paris press ignored Muggs; the Japanese papers raved about him; Italian newsmen were both kind and critical...
...Parliament, Laborite Maurice Edelman asked whether or not supporters of sponsored TV were on the side of the chimp. Fourteen vice chancellors of universities protested against commercial TV. In a lot of British papers, U.S. commercial TV became an epithet almost as dirty as "McCarthyism...
...Brooklyn woman wrote in and invited Muggs to spend the weekend; another offered the chimp use of her limousine, if J. Fred would let her come along too. Wrote one young televiewer: "I've been wanting a baby sister for quite a while and never got one. Since I've seen you . . . I'd rather have a sister like...
...Love That Chimp." Producer Katzman's most successful serial is his Superman, which grossed more than $1,000,000, and was so popular in South America that the whole 31-reel cliff-hanger-5 hours 10 minutes long-was run off as a single feature. Sam pre-tests the plots and chapter endings on his 15-year-old son Jerome and playmates. "If they guess how the guy gets out of the predicament each week, it goes out immediately and we rewrite until they can't guess...
...Jungle Jim pictures, starring ex-Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller, and a chimpanzee named Tamba, are Sam's biggest grossers. Each picture costs about $300,000, brings in close to $1,000,000. Says Sam fondly: "I love that chimp. He's out there now learning new tricks for his next picture . . . I love animals anyway, because the audience loves them...