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Perhaps it is the distinctive nature of the gift shop which enables the sales girl to say with a straight face: "Yensir, one gorilla. Shall I gift-wrap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Gift Shop At Museum Discloses Craze for Dinosaurs | 12/17/1962 | See Source »

...Health] was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all. It was a place impossible to enter except through a maze of barbed wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barrlers were reamed by gorilla-faced [workmen] in black uniforms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Once More the Ministry | 2/7/1962 | See Source »

...CHURCHILL CANVAS, by John Spencer Churchill (308 pp.; Little, Brown; $5.75). Uncle could ape a gorilla as well as any man who ever lived. "Grr, grr," he would roar, and then crouch in the branches of an oak, "baring his teeth and pounding his chest with his fists." At the beach, Uncle was always the engineer who mobilized the children to build a fortress of sand against the rising tide: "More sand for the outer defenses! Stop the moat from flooding! Hurry!" Uncle also happened to be Winston Churchill, and upon this familial foundation John Spencer Churchill-a painter specializing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Also Current: Jan. 19, 1962 | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...have never met vis-a-vis, but in the aristocracy of success there are no strangers." In the end, the Yalie is so corrupted that he slips a $500,000 bribe to a California judge (Lahr) to help his sweetheart beat an indecency rap (dancing with a gorilla while scantily clad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: Lay Off the Muses | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

Konga concerns a "botany scientist" named Charles Decker, who returns to London from a safari with a chimp and a secret growth stimulant. He inflates the chimpanzee to gorilla size, and sics him on an annoying dean, a competing professor, and an angry boyfriend of the coed he lusts after. Margaret, his assistant, at first keeps silent because of her love for the professor, but later tries to turn Konga on Decker. She is consumed in flames; the vurvy coed (played by Claire Gordon, shown above) is eaten by a plant; Decker is mangled; and Konga is shot...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Herman Cohen | 3/23/1961 | See Source »

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