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...chimp-property of Christiansen and Wilhelmina Dowell, house residents in Cabot-is staying with Miss Hastings until Sunday, when his owners return from California. The Dowells originally gave Ernie to a Harvard student, an expert on primate behavior, who returned the chimp to Cabot after he destroyed furniture...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Hope You Are a Monkey Woman | 2/21/1970 | See Source »

...realize he needs a nursemaid and not a chimp specialist," said Miss Hastings. "Every single aspect of my maternal instinct has come out since he's been here," she added. "I'm just not in a hurry to be a mother...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Hope You Are a Monkey Woman | 2/21/1970 | See Source »

...girl who works at the zoo teaches chimpanzees how to pet their own newborn chimps. She holds the chimp's hand and together they stroke the baby. As if it were...

Author: By David R. Icnatius, | Title: Animals The Children's Zoo at Franklin Park | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...Vickers Vimy biplane in 1919, the race had 390 entrants from ten countries competing for $144,000 in prizes in such bizarre categories as the best performances by a Swiss or a resident of New York State. The contestants included onetime Racing Car Champion Stirling Moss and a chimp named Tina, who was vying for honors as "most meritorious performance by a Commonwealth citizen." For all of them, the hardest part was not the flying but getting to and from the check-in stations atop the Empire State Building in New York and the General Post Office in London. Royal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventures: The Uncommon Men | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...game would be spent determining how much he would lose." When Reasoner called the phone company to complain about digit dialing, the response made him fume: "They've got that defense in depth, whereby the first three people you talk to know only one phrase each, like a chimp trained to press a lever for a banana-flavored pellet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newscasting: Television: Jan. 10, 1969 | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

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