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When Cartoonist Robert Osborn left the Navy in 1946, he paid his respects to the military with a small book of cartoons entitled War Is No Damn Good! Across its pages strutted a wonderful, viciously funny parade of balloon-shaped generals and admirals, gorilla-faced noncoms and forlorn, tortured G.I.s. Last week Osborn finally paid his respects to civilian life with a book called Low & Inside (Farrar, Straus & Young; $3.75). If anything, the sequel is even deadlier and more acidly humorous than the original...
...couple of broken down vaudevillians who hire themselves out as deep sea divers in a quest for sunken treasure off the island of Vatu. Along the way, they encounter a dastardly South Sea prince (Murvyn Vye), a Balinese princess of Scottish ancestry (Dorothy Lamour), an amorous gorilla and a giant squid. In addition, there are brief, improbable appearances by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Bob Crosby, Humphrey Bogart (pulling The African Queen through the swamps) and Jane Russell (whom Hope conjures from a basket with a magic horn...
...Codger. When the Sanitary Commission visited Lincoln, Strong found him "a barbarian, Scythian, yahoo, or gorilla in respect of outside polish," but also a man of "evident integrity and simplicity of purpose." From this visit Strong brought back a fine Lincoln story. Strong had asked Lincoln to pardon an imprisoned man. The papers for a pardon, replied Lincoln, "must be referred to the Attorney-General, but I guess it will be all right, for me and the Attorney-General's very chicken-hearted...
Behind bars in the Philadelphia Zoo, where he has been looking with distaste at people ever since he was brought from French Equatorial Africa as a puny, 11-lb. baby, Bamboo, now a quarter-ton, 6-ft. evil-tempered gorilla, celebrated his 25th anniversary of confinement with a "birthday cake" made of cod liver oil, peanut mash and oyster shell, with a watermelon for dessert. The anniversary also chalked up a record. Bamboo, whether he likes it or not, is the only gorilla ever to survive a quarter-century in captivity...
...professor rushed to New York, embalmed the gorilla immediately, and then shipped him to Cambridge as an addition to his large primate collection. Handled with utmost care, the 12 year old animal is still in excellent condition, and Dr. Erikson feels confident that he will be able to prosect his monster indefinitely...