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...fiancée Amy, an intellectual sort of girl. For company he takes with him "a well-grown, sagacious, fine specimen" of a chimpanzee named Emily. All goes very well for a while ("In England the Primate takes precedence of all but Royal Dukes"). But Emily, no ordinary chimp, knows how to read. She takes a course in the British Museum, and she thinks she had better start at the beginning with The Origin of Species. Soon, except that she likes to enter her flat by climbing the drainpipe, and that she has a humble and loving heart...
...however, is browbeaten by his fiancée Amy, and falls on evil times. Selling matches outside the Ritz, he is rescued from verminous destitution by Emily, who by now has taken to driving a Hispano-Suiza (an equipage which dates the book to Michael Arlen times). The cute chimp has managed to turn herself into Juanita Spaniola. a ?100-a-week exotic dancer, and her vocabulary is more than 500 words-greater than that of today's J. Fred Muggs...
Muggs was recovering from a virus infection at his rambling ten-room house in Ramsey, N.J., and his lawyer, Jack Katz, kept mum. But Bud Mennella of the J. Fred Muggs Enterprises confirmed that the chimp's little eyes were fastened on an active future. "The NBC contract is re warding," he said, "but also constricting." Muggs has had so many offers, he added, that he hardly knows where to start raking in the big money. At NBC, where he started at $250 a week, Muggs now makes only $1,275 a week, pads it out with "sizable" income...
...roaring fire watching TV. When necessary, they have even slept in the same bed with him ("The only trouble is that he grabs all the blankets"). Says Mennella: "There will never be another one like him." Actually, NBC is already dickering with a 17-month-old Miami chimp named Mr. Cocomo...
...tickets, though the ordinary tourists pays nothing extra for hotel bookings an rail tickets. "The company gets a wholesale commission from the carriers and hotels.) Recent FITs: Marlene Dietrich, Cardinal Spellman, Perle Mesta (for whom American express helped arrange a trip to Moscow) and J. Fred Muggs, the TV chimp. For non-FITs who flock abroad on regular escorted tours the company offers 173 different itineraries in Europe alone. This year, for the first time, it has organized a 56-day Bible Lands pilgrimage shepherded by a Methodist minister, a golfer's tour through 19 courses in four countries...